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U.S. supports Honduran government despite violent crackdown on protesters listen

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Tags: Honduras, Haiti, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, State Department, Central America

Union busting, deregulation of private industry and silencing of dissent are on the laundry list of beefs many US citizens have about the new Republican leadership in statehouses like Florida, Ohio and Indiana. Working people in one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere are railing against their US-supported government’s anti-labor policies.

An estimated 300 people have died suspiciously in Honduras since a 2009 military coup that replaced democratically elected president Manu...

Father Roy Bourgeois, School Of The Americas Watch Founder

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Tags: Scool of the Americas; WHINSEC, torture, coups, Honduras, Oscar Romero, women priests

Our guest today is Father Roy Bourgeois, M.M., founder of SOA Watch and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He will speak at Lakewood United Church of Christ, 2601 54th Ave. S. in St. Petersburg, on Friday, Feb. 19, at 7:00 PM.

Fr. Bourgeois founded SOA Watch in 1990 to close the School of the Americas, renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in 2001 (SOA/WHINSEC).

The SOA/WHINSEC is based at the Fort Benning U.S. Army base in Columbus, GA, ...

Zelaya returns to Honduras listen

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Tags: Honduras

Deposed President Manuel Zelaya apparently has returned to Honduaras to reclaim his presidency. He appeared on local television Channel 36 today to rally supporters.

President Zelaya was forced out of Honduras at gunpoint in late June in a military coup d'etat. Leaders of the de facto coup government have threatened to arrest him if he returns.

This afternoon, WMNF spoke with Mark Weisbrot, co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Coup in Honduras

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Tags: Honduras, Zelaya, Harry Vanden, coup

USF (Tampa) Latin American Studies professor Harry Vanden joined us this hour for a discussion of the coup this past weekend in Honduras. The deposed President of the country says he plans to return to Honduras this coming weekend. The Honduran military is vowing to prevent that from happening.