The Coup in Honduras

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The Field blog, run by journalist Al Giordano has been following the Honduras coup very closely. Here's a linkspam:


Toppling a Coup, Part I: Dilemmas for the Honduras Regime

Last Saturday, at a hastily called public meeting in Tegucigalpa, more than one hundred rank and file participants in the Honduran civil resistance and some of its known leaders came out to speak with Ivan Marovich, the Serbian resistance veteran who had been invited by local and national anti-coup organizations to share his experiences.

It was one of three such sessions, and the only public meeting of the three. Almost immediately upon the completion of the screening of the film Bringing Down a Dictator (you can watch it via YouTube in six parts beginning here) about the Serbian movement that toppled the government of Slobodan Misolevic, a wind storm outside brought down a light pole, and with it the electric wires that lit the auditorium.

The Q & A session was thus held in darkness, and yet nobody left. Every attendee stayed for more than an hour with questions and comments to share. The lack of light in the windowless auditorium provided the feel of an underground meeting of the resistance.

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Toppling a Coup, Part II: The Honduras Regime Is Like an Onion



Toppling a Coup, Part III: Discipline Solves the Big Problems


Toppling a Coup, Part IV: The Lost Sheep and the Flock



Toppling a Coup, Part V: The Resistance Cracks the Oligarchy




Toppling a Coup, Part VI: Electoral, Armed, or Something Else



The Learning Curve of the Teachers vs. the Honduras Coup


Cracks in the Honduran Coup Regime Grow Wider


Honduras: Clinton vs. Clinton

Too Cute by Half on Honduras, Mr. President



US Secretary of State Clinton’s Micro-Management of the Corporation that Funds the Honduras Coup Regime

In recent days, Narco News has reported that, in the three months prior to the June 28 coup d’etat in Honduras, the US-funded Millennium Change Corporation (MCC) gave at least $11 million US dollars to private-sector contractors in Honduras and also that since the coup it has doled out another $6.5 million.
The latter revelation – that the money spigot has been left on even after the coup – comes in spite of claims by the State Department that it has placed non-humanitarian funding “on pause” pending a yet-unfinished review.
Narco News has further learned – based on a review documents available on the websites of the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the US State Department – that Secretary Clinton, as chairman of the MCC board, is not just a figurehead in name only. She has played an extremely active role in governing and promoting the fund and its decisions.
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