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Obama in El Salvador

With the resurgence of right-wing death squads and paramilitaries in Honduras, Central American citizens may be forgiven for being less than enthused by Obama’s promise yesterday.

(ISTANBUL) - As part of his visit to El Salvador yesterday, the last stop on a Latin American excursion occurring despite events in Japan and Libya, Barack Obama visited the tomb of Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero, assassinated on March 24, 1980.

Observers have noted that the current bombing of Libya began on the same date as the start of the Iraq war eight years ago.

O`Grady`s Honduran Free Market Fantasies

Free market advocates fantasize about running away to desert islands of economic liberty might have already had their fantasies sufficiently fulfilled via sweatshop opportunities in Honduras.

(ISTANBUL) - The The Wall Street Journal's Mary O’Grady championed of the 2009 coup d’état against Honduran President Mel Zelaya “because he was trying to extend his presidency in violation of the nation’s constitution”

Perhaps it had more to do with his plan to rewrite a document produced at the height of Honduras’ cold war service as a U.S. military base...

Prior to Being Obsessed with WikiLeaks, Hillary Clinton was Obsessed with Honduras

None of the cables so far answer the question of what prevented the U.S. from fulfilling its manic need to restore Zelaya to the presidency.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - In preparing for her today's Wall Street Journal, “WikiLeaks, Honduras and the U.S.”, Mary Anastasia O’Grady presumably had a number of approaches choose him.

One option was to announce that Assange is an agent of FARC and that confirmation has been obtained from the laptops impounded during the 2008 Colombian raid on their camp in Ecuador....

Al Qaeda is Deaf

Mr. North appears to have forgotten about cocaine-trafficking to fund terror in the form of right-wing Nicaraguan death squads

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - A recent FoxNews.com dispatch from the “America’s Third War” series—this one entitled “Fighting Drug Cartels in Guatemala”

(read: “Encouraging Drug Cartels in Guatemala Such That They Might Then Be Fought”)—ends on a warning note underscoring how America’s Third War is intimately linked to the first two.

A Single Golpista Race and the Honduran Top Five

Includes five pitiful examples that come to mind when examining a golpista-orchestrated confrontation.

(WASHINTON D.C.) - The documentary “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” reveals what happened during a short-lived coup against Venezuela's President in 2002.

The Venezuelan coup was promptly reversed, of course. The more recent coup against Honduran President Mel Zelaya was not, despite the coup regime’s blatant manipulation of the media.

How to Disappear a Coup in 3 Easy Steps

"Cause your ambassador to the country in question to forget his/her previous cable and to declare elections conducted under an illegal government 'free, fair, and transparent'...."

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The reaction of the U.S. State Department to last year’s coup d’état against Honduran President Mel Zelaya provides an instructive example for governments worldwide who may wish to thwart democracy in their own backyards.

Interested parties are invited to internalize the following three simple steps...

Zelaya Chills in Dominican Paradise while Supporters Attempt Sabotage of Independence Day

Media downplays violence against political resistance.

(WASHINTON D.C.) - Today’s top story in the Honduran paper El Heraldo, one of the mouthpieces of last year’s coup against President Mel Zelaya, proclaims that Honduras celebrated 189 years of independence from Spain yesterday “in peace and tranquility” and that “every Honduran heart beat stronger” with love and pride for the land.

Honduran Police Reiterate Lack of Education in Teacher Repression

Includes photos depicting recent scenes outside the Pedagogical University in Tegucigalpa and other armed pedagogical endeavors.

(TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras) - During a meeting at the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, shortly after last year’s coup d’état against President Mel Zelaya—which U.S. Ambassador to Honduras Hugo Llorens alternately defined at the meeting as “a clear-cut case of a coup” and a “whatever you call it”.

Deputy Mission Chief Simon Henshaw described Honduran soldiers and police as “extremely uneducated” in their physical abuse of peaceful anti-coup protesters, who were variously on the receiving end of tear gas canisters, cigarette butts, vaginally-inserted police batons, and the occasional fatal bullet to the head.

Honduran Man Faces Sentencing for Heroin Trafficking Tied to Death of Young Oregon Resident

The suspect had entered the U.S. illegally, prior to the alleged crime.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - On July 8, 2010, Antonio Cruz, an illegal alien from Honduras, is going to be sentenced for his involvement in trafficking heroin into Portland, Oregon.

Cruz has been traced back as the supplier for the black tar heroin that killed 21-year-old Kyle Whipps, a Sisters, OR resident visiting Portland for a series of concerts in September 2008.

Nasrallah May Have Addressed Allies as `Yo, Ayatollah` During July War

Excerpts from a BBC interview between Bush and Blair.

(LONDON) - One week from today—July 12—will mark the fourth anniversary of the start of the July War in Lebanon, which lasted 34 days and resulted in the deaths of approximately 1200 Lebanese civilians and 43 Israeli civilians.

None of the latter nationality were liquidated by Apache helicopter after being ordered by Hezbollah to abandon their villages.