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Democracy Now! Wednesday, June 1, 2011
We continue our coverage of the historic return of ousted Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya, who on June 28, 2009, was kidnapped at gunpoint and put on a plane to Costa Rica in a coup orchestrated in part by two generals trained in the United States. Much of the buzz surrounding Manuel Zelaya’s return to Honduras centered on whether his wife, Xiomara Castro, will run for president. In an interview with Democracy Now! in Honduras, Castro addresses the prospect of seeking office and her thoughts upon returning from exile. Democracy Now!, a daily independent newshour.
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In a Democracy Now! global broadcast exclusive, we take you on the plane of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya as he and his family return home after almost two years in exile. We also speak to Father Roy Bourgeois of School of the Americas Watch on the role U.S.-trained generals played in the 2009 coup.
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Democracy Now!: Wed., Jan. 27, 2010
In Honduras, ousted president Manuel Zelaya is due to leave the country today after President-elect Porfirio Lobo is sworn into office -- we go inside the Brazilian embassy to speak with Democracy Now!’s Andrés Conteris; and a look at corporate money and politics with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, whose Casino Jack and the United States of Money focuses on disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
GRITtv: Honduras Coup Flashpoint for Latin America
The U.S. has decided to recognize the result of the recent elections in Honduras despite ongoing reports that the elections were boycotted and that the people consider them an extension of the coup. But will the coup in Honduras create larger problems for Latin America? What will its effects mean for the rest of Latin America, a region trending leftward in recent years? Nation contributor Greg Grandin and Sujatha Fernandes, Queens College professor join us in studio to discuss. We also have updates from inside Honduras from Andres Conteris of Nonviolence International and Democracy Now!, and freelance journalist Elyssa Pachico reports from Chile.
GRITtv: Under Siege in Honduras: Inside the Brazilian Embassy
Andres Conteris of Nonviolence International and Democracy Now! en espa'ol is the only English-speaking media representative inside the Brazilian embassy with deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, and he thinks that the U.S. could be doing much more to ensure that democracy prevails in the Central American country. Though the administration has called for the reinstatement of Zelaya, it has not put actual pressure to bear, and Conteris urges GRITtv viewers to call their representatives in Congress and urge sanctions against the coup regime.
GRITtv: A Media Blackout in Honduras
News from Honduras has been in short supply even though the standoff between ousted leader Manuel Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti continues. July 30 marked one of the bloodiest days since the military coup and efforts to achieve some kind of power sharing agreement between the two parties and ensure Zelaya's return have failed. So what's happening on the ground? And why aren't we hearing about it? Rick Rowley, independent journalist and founder of Big Noise Films, has just returned from Honduras and Sandra Cuffe, a correspondent for The Dominion in Honduras, discuss recent political developments in the country.
GRITtv: Greg Grandin: Echoes of the 80s In Honduras
Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City and a professor of History at NYU, has spent the last few days in Honduras and reports on echoes of the 1980s and Latin America?s dirty wars as ousted leader Manuel Zelaya and his supporters camp out near the border in Nicaragua. Grandin says that according to international observer missions there have been at least eight deaths and disappearances and that some victims have shown signs of torture and strangulation.
GRITtv: What is Obama's Position on Honduras?
Roberto Lovato, contributing associate editor at New America Media, and Andres Thomas Conteris, the founder of Democracy Now! en Espanol on the political impasse in Honduras and the US role in negotiations to reach a deal between the coup leaders and ousted president Manuel Zelaya. Obama may be paying lip service to the fact that the coup is illegitimate but the actions of the US State Department speak otherwise. Meanwhile, according to Lovato, the number of those who have been beaten, disappeared, and perhaps even killed continues to rise. Does the United States support Zelaya's return to power? More than 55 scholars and experts on Latin America have urged Obama to warn the regime against further violence in Honduras.
GRITtv: Eva Golinger: What Does the US Want in Honduras?
Since Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was forcibly removed from power in a military coup, the US media have made the argument that the deposed leader was engineering plans to change the constitution in order to stay in power. At least that's how Charles Krauthammer characterized it recently on Fox news, without failing to compare Hugo Chavez to Hitler. That's in the US. But how is the coup in Honduras being covered in Latin America? We're joined by journalist Eva Golinger who has been covering the political developments from Venezuela. Golinger is a Venezuelan American attorney, writer, and investigator and the author of The Chavez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela.
