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Since I don't have time right now to specifically rebut all the lies below, I'll just boldface them. The most outrageous is the one about the US spearing the OAS' diplomatic efforts. Click title for original:
U.S. Committed To Honduras Security
A team of technical experts will travel there to step up collaboration on bilateral efforts to fight crime.
02-02-2012

Feliz día de la Mujer! Digicel y el Instituto Nacional de la Mujer INAM las felicita en su día. Recuerda marcar 114 para tu denuncia a la violencia doméstica.
Happy Women's Day! Digicel and the National Institute for Women INAM congratulate you on your day. Remember: dial 114 to make your complaint about domestic violence.
Ya no te sientes seguro? Mantente alerta en las calles, envía SEGURIDAD al 5757 y recibe útiles consejos todos los días. Costo por mensaje recibido L. 3.20 con ISV
Honduras: Country with highest levels of poverty in America
Red Morazanica de Información (my translation)
According to the 2011 study "Social Panorama of Latin America" released last November by the United Nation's Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the total poverty index for Honduras was 67.8%.
Click title for original in UDW:
Campesino Land Struggles in the Aguán Valley, Honduras
Written by Heather Gies
Friday, 20 January 2012 14:59
The Aguán River Valley in the department of Colón, Honduras, is a site of both an ongoing conflict and a powerful social movement. In a struggle for land that greatly predates, but was also further exacerbated by, the 2009 military coup in Honduras, campesinos in the Aguán are constantly subject to human rights abuses, repression and injustice. But, as witnessed during my recent participation in an Alliance for Global Justice accompaniment delegation, these communities are also unfailingly resilient. Poor, vulnerable, and landless, the Aguán campesinos truly represent and embody the Resistance movement in Honduras.
Click title for original in CounterPunch:
Weekend Edition January 27-29, 2012
Free Trade, Drug Trade Fall-out
Violence Sweeps Central America
by PAUL IMISON
Mexico City
While Mexico grabs the headlines of soaring murder rates and rampaging drug gangs, the really heavy bloodshed is taking place to the south. The much smaller nations of Guatemala and El Salvador are seeing their worst violence since the civil wars of the 1980s, while Honduras is currently the murder capital of the world with 86 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants; a murder rate nearly five times higher than Mexico’s.
On January 23, 2012, the same day Honduran journalist Gilda Carolina Silvestrucchi hosted a radio program on problems related to gold mining in the Siria Valley and the controversial new Mining Law, she received a death threat.

This is not the first death threat Gilda has received for her reporting.
Now we need you to send a message in defense of Gilda's life. Click here now to take action!
Click title for original by Steven Bodzin at Tuerto:
El Universo appeals to a higher court (the gringos, obviously)
Jan 26, ’12 2:19 PM

We love a free press, but does the Latin American version always have to be so darn elitist? (Image from George Baxter, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
El Universo, the Ecuadorian newspaper that local courts have hit with a $40 million fine for slandering President Rafael Correa, took a curious tack this week as it sought to defend itself in the court of public opinion while the courts of law prepared to weigh a final appeal (cassation actually, if any lawyers are keeping score).
Click title for original in the New York Times, with links:
In Honduras, a Mess Made in the U.S.
By DANA FRANK
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.
Published: January 26, 2012
Click title for original in Labor is Not a Commodity:
The New Face behind Unionized (and Feminist) Bananas in Latin America
By Lupita Aguila Arteaga, STITCH
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