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HILLARY CLINTON VISITS GUATEMALA & HONDURAS
March 6, 2010, by Annie Bird, Rights Action

THREE EIGHTS (I / III)
Juan Almendares

The number eight in the vernacular means mess, three eights are three tangles, a horizontal eight in math represents infinity and three eights asleep and aligned imply an infinite maze.

On 28 February 2010, three days after the appointment of new Chief of the Armed Forces, a story of 888 words highlighted in the newspaper La Prensa: "Guerrilla cell arms itself in Lower Aguan" whose source is, according to the article, a report from the Honduran military intelligence agency.

The story about the bereaved golpista journalist Carol Cabrera just keeps getting more absurd and tragic. When her 8-months pregnant 16-year-old daughter was assassinated by a soccer gang last December, she and Micheletti immediately went all over the national and international media claiming it was done by the resistance assassins (even his own police force had to shut him up). Micheletti did that mostly, I suspect, to take away from media attention of Walter Tróchez's assassination, carried out by his forces.

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The dark mass for those who have made a pact with the devil
for Mayra and Rodil
by Rodolfo Pastor Fasquelle
my translation

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More great reporting by Jihan Hafiz from a few days ago (I'm in the first clip- it was a particularly sleepless week)

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Clinton's Latin American clangers
Offensive remarks on Honduras, gratuitous insults in Brazil – Hillary Clinton's Latin American tour has not been a success
Mark Weisbrot
guardian.co.uk, Friday 5 March

To the Honduran People:

I accuse Jorge Canahuati Larach, Maria Antonia de Fuentes, Ana Morales, Nelson Garcia of attempting to manipulate public opinion to justify a campaign of terror in Bajo Aguan AGAINST Honduran peasants.

REGISTRY OF POLITICALLY MOTIVATED VIOLENT KILLINGS IN HONDURAS, JUNE 2009 – FEBRUARY 2010
SUMMARY by COFADEH (Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras)
(Translated by Quixote Center, www.quixote.org)

[Date / Name / Age / Place]

1- 07/03/2009, GABRIEL FINO NORIEGA, 51, San Juan Pueblo, Tela, Atlántida