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Honduras Commemorates Tense Anniversary of Unresolved Military Coup
by Adrienne Pine
Ongoing U.S. efforts to secure Honduras's international recognition depend on a narrative that says that the country has achieved stability and reconciliation since president Porfirio Lobo took office in January. However, Honduras is anything but stable and reconciled, and opposing narratives carry the weight of the bloody evidence accumulated in the months since Lobo's inauguration. These tensions, and Honduras's deep wound of conflict that persists, show much is at stake on this first anniversary of the military coup that ousted former president Manuel Zelaya on June 28, 2009.
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Bagua, Peru: A Year After
by Kristina Aiello
On June 5, 2009 police moved in with lethal force to remove indigenous protesters upset about their lands being opened up to oil and gas drilling. The ensuing violence left 34 people dead and hundreds wounded. Now, a year later, not only hasn't there been a fair and impartial accounting of what led up to this violence in Bagua, but also the conditions and reasons for it remain intact in Peru. Development plans, designed to exploit the country's natural resources, are accelerating in the country. And Peruvian President Alan Garcia might just be undermining the country's new consultation law, meant to make the decision-making process around these development plans more democratic.
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The Honduran Business Elite One Year After the Coup
by Dawn Paley
The first anniversary of the June 28, 2009 military coup in Honduras might just slide under the international radar, timed as it is right after the Honduran national team kicks off at the World Cup. The Honduran business community could hardly have planned it better themselves. After all, Honduras's most powerful families who make up the local machinery of the neoliberal economic model thought to be at the center of the country's post-coup struggle, are also the ones accused of being the "visible face" behind the ouster of former President José Manuel Zelaya.
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