Denouement to a Coup D’etat?

Staff / Truthdig Oct 30, 2009 A resolution to the Honduran coup d'etat may be near after the country's interim government agreed to a deal that could lead to the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. International pressure has been immense against the coup leaders, with most countries supporting Zelaya's return. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Honduras Talks Fall Apart

Staff / Truthdig Oct 23, 2009 Despite overwhelming international support and the fact that he was removed in an illegal coup, Manuel Zelaya is still having problems winning reinstatement as Honduras' president: Talks between the interim government and his ousted administration collapsed Thursday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Critical of Zelaya, Honduran Government

Staff / Truthdig Sep 29, 2009 Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya (above) shouldn't have returned to his home turf before striking some kind of agreement with the regime that seized power during last summer's coup, according to Lewis Amselem, U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States -- but Amselem also fired off some words of official disapproval about said regime while he was at it. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

2 Honduran Media Outlets Silenced

Staff / Truthdig Sep 28, 2009 As if the Honduran coup leaders couldn't get any more nostalgic for the 1980s, they have closed down two domestic media organizations critical of the interim government, a move that shadows pretty much every Latin American coup in the past half-century. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Coup Leaders Set a Deadline in Honduras

Staff / Truthdig Sep 27, 2009 With no real strategy or international support, Honduras' takeover government is putting a 10-day deadline on Brazil to decide what to do with ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who is shacked up in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa after returning to his country last week. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Honduras Curfew Suspended

Staff / Truthdig Sep 24, 2009 The de facto government in Honduras lifted a three-day curfew imposed after ousted President Manuel Zelaya returned to the Central American country. As the political drama played out, residents of the capital rushed out to shop for food and supplies. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

President Zelaya and the Audacity of Action

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Sep 23, 2009 Manuel Zelaya, the democratically elected president of Honduras, is back in his country after being deposed in a military coup June 28. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

OAS Delegation to Honduras

BLANK Aug 8, 2009 Little has been done to undo the coup d'etat that rocked Honduras over a month ago. Now, the Organization of American States, hoping for new elections and the return of President Manuel Zelaya, is sending a delegation to the country to try to negotiate an end to the crisis. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Coup for Lobbyists at the White House

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Aug 5, 2009 Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in the middle of the night just over a month ago, enjoys global support for his return, with the exception of the Obama White House. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Showdown in Honduras [A Cartoon From Germany]

Rainer Hachfeld, Neues Deutschland, Germany Jul 27, 2009 Dig deeper

EU Suspends Aid to Honduras

Staff / Truthdig Jul 20, 2009 More than three weeks after the coup, the European Union has decided to halt aid to Honduras. The EU refused to give coup leaders $90 million in aid after the interim government rejected its demands that power be returned to ousted President Manuel Zelaya. That rejection caused EU-Honduran talks to break down. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Honduras Talks Get Lost in Costa Rica

Staff / Truthdig Jul 20, 2009 Honduras' coup-empowered interim government refuses to discuss any deal that involves the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, pictured above, despite overwhelming international and regional pressure. But Costa Rica's Nobel Prize-winning President Oscar Arias isn't giving up for fear that failure could lead to civil war. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )