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John Lindsay-Poland, Research and Advocacy Director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), interviewed by KPFA’s Dennis Bernstein about the US Defense Department’s open bidding for a contract worth up to $25 million to build barracks for enlisted soldiers at the U.S. military base in Soto Cano/Palmerola, Honduras. LISTEN TO AUDIO: Flashpoints – June 1, 2011 at […]
June 2, 2011
Honduran teachers who have been on a hunger strike for 28 days publicly asked former president Manuel Zelaya to intercede on their behalf for the reinstatement of some 300 suspended teachers. The five teachers fasting in La Merced Square hope to meet with Zelaya, who returned to the country on Saturday, 23 months after a […]
June 2, 2011
After masked soldiers kidnapped the democratically elected president Manuel Zelaya on June 28, 2009, and flew him to a U.S. military base in Honduras and then onto Costa Rica, hundreds of Hondurans, fearing for their lives, went into exile. Zelaya’s former minister of culture, Rodolfo Pastor Fasquelle, was one of them. After he fled Honduras, […]
June 2, 2011
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