President of Honduras ousted in military coup
The Honduran military staged a coup, ousting President Manuel Zelaya. This comes after heated debates about Zelaya’s referendum on presidential term limits, which was deemed unconstitutional by the...
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Poverty, corruption play into power struggle in Honduras
A woman holds a copy of the Honduran constitution and flag at a protest. While governments around the hemisphere (including Cuba and the United States) support the return of Honduras’ ousted...
View ArticleWeek in review: Iraq pullback and unrest in Honduras
Garrick Utley, former NBC News anchor and now president of the Levin Institute of the State University of New York, and Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, join Martin Savidge to discuss the...
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Political crisis in Honduras deepens and turns deadly
Honduras’ sharply divided population has been engaged in competing protests since a military coup ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Diplomats are still struggling to help Honduras out of a political...
View ArticleU.S. confers with deposed president of Honduras
In Washington on Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with the deposed president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya. She announced that the president of Costa Rica will serve as a mediator in the...
View ArticleQ&A: Political turmoil in the streets of Honduras
Diplomats are still struggling to help Honduras out of a political mess that only seems to grow deeper by the day. On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with ousted President Manuel...
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Impoverished Hondurans caught up in battle of political wills
Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Most police around the world will tell you that they’re always wary about getting into the middle of a domestic dispute. It can be a...
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Political cartoonist detained by armed forces in Honduras
One of Allan McDonald’s cartoons, courtesy of the artist. Political upheaval continues in Honduras, after liberal leader Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a military coup in late June. The military has...
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Tune in: Online radio show on media battles in Honduras
Political upheaval continues in Honduras, after liberal leader Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a military coup in late June. It is a battle that has played out not only in the streets of Honduras, but...
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High-powered Americans entangled in Honduras crisis
A banner voices opposition to the coup in Honduras. International politics have never been far from the surface of the presidential crisis in Honduras. — What was the role of Venezuelan President Hugo...
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Deposed president sneaks back to Honduras
Manuel Zelaya’s ouster has fueled passions in Honduras and beyond. The stealthy return to Honduras by deposed President Manuel Zelaya this week highlights unusual alliances that make it hard to game...
View ArticleZelaya supporters defy Honduran curfew
In Central America, in Honduras, supporters of deposed President Manuel Zelaya again took to the streets on Tuesday night in defiance of a government curfew. Zelaya has been holed up in the Brazilian...
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Political standoff continues in Honduras
Protesters at the Brazilian embassy in Honduras. Peter Eisner describes the political climate in Honduras and shares the observations of a Worldfocus contributing blogger. There was word of...
View ArticleNo aid to illegitimate governments: punishing the people?
In Honduras two years ago then-President Manuel Zelaya launched an ambitious program to bring government services to mountainous areas inhabited by Tolupan indigenous people. The initiative was funded...
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Today: Honduras, Pakistan and new domains on the Web
Stories compiled by Mohammad al-Kassim, Channtal Fleischfresser, Connie Kargbo, Ivette Feliciano, Christine Kiernan and Gizem Yarbil and edited by Rebecca Haggerty. SOUTH KOREA: The non-profit body...
View ArticleA breakthrough for Honduras’ political crisis
Christopher Sabatini, the senior director of policy for the Council of the Americas and an expert on Latin American affairs discusses the resolution of the political crisis in Honduras with David...
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Looking beyond the Honduran political crisis
A young woman in Minas de Oro. Photo: Flickr user lonqueta The United States has been actively engaged lately in solving the Honduran presidential crisis. The U.S. State Department officials have...
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Today: A tanker hijack and a Swiss vote to ban minarets
Stories compiled by Gizem Yarbil, Connie Kargbo, Channtal Fleischfresser, Christine Kiernan, Ivette Feliciano, and Mohammad al-Kassim, and edited by Rebecca Haggerty and Ben Piven. PHILIPPINES:...
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Hoping for a decisive end to the Honduran political crisis
The Honduran President-elect. Photo: Al Jazeera English I’ve got several comments about the context of last Sunday’s presidential election in Honduras, where Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo, a conservative...
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An American bloc without its big players?
Closing ceremony of the Latin American and Caribbean Unity summit. Photo Miguel Romero/Presidencia de la República, Flickr user Presidencia de la República del Ecuador. Latin American and Caribbean...
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