Hats for Honduras

Many of you are probably already aware of the coup taking place in Honduras, where sitting president Zeleya was ousted by military force and from the presidential palace, and flown to Costa Rica.

I want to encourage everyone to read as much as they can about this current crisis from as many different sources as you can. There are some intricacies that the US mainstream press don’t generally report, so it’s good to have more breadth in your sources.

One of the places I go to for news in English for Honduras is here:

http://www.hondurasnews.com/

Some things that are happening now from their perspective from their “ground zero” locally:

• The new sitting president, Roberto Micheletti, has issued a nation-wide curfew between 9pm and 6am Sunday and Monday.
• Zelaya has been flown to Nicaragua with the assistance of the Venezuelan government.
• Two of the military leaders of the coup are graduates or have trained at  the US taxpayer funded Army School of the Americas (SOA), which has a tainted history of its graduates leading massacres, targeting union organizers, and committing human rights atrocities in Latin America.  More info here:  http://www.soaw.org/
• An emergency meeting with the UN is scheduled for Monday around this issue.

While the focus of Hats for Honduras is not one of politics, I did want to give folks some other news sources to look to so they can be more informed of what the people of Honduras might be facing.

I’m hoping to call our friend Henry in the morning to see how he is doing in the midst of this crisis in Honduras.