No you see it, now you don’t. The coup in Honduras of June 28 has revealed not only the deep divide between an impoverished majority and a privileged elite within Honduras, but the profoundly schizoid nature of the US’ foreign policy, writes Warwick Fry.
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Brazil puts the heat on Honduras
The ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya has returned and is in hiding, while the coup continues and the world’s media misreports events. It’s no wonder free elections are impossible.
Honduras in crisis: riots and a smuggled President
In a move sure to grab the attention of world leaders at the UN summit, the deposed president of Honduras has made a dramatic return to his homeland after months in exile.
Hope for a reformed Fiji has gone, now it’s Bainimarama’s turn
With Fiji now suspended from the Commonwealth, it’s becoming even more apparent that Frank Bainimarama has failed to reform Fiji and his time as leader is numbered, writes Kalafi Moala.
Fiji no longer the ‘bula-bula-happy-clappy land’
Post Fiji’s 2006 military coup, the economy is collapsing, morale is low and leadership is a mess. “Fiji is on the same path that Burma and Zimbabwe and Nigeria went down”, writes discombobulated.
Honduras media shut down
The military coup in Honduras has been conveniently and rather predictably followed up by the systematic closing of dissident media outlets and the censorship of others.
Guy Rundle: Resistance grows in Honduras; US watches and waits
The arrest and exile of President Zelaya in Honduras takes on all the classic appurtenances of a latin american coup.
Honduras for Dummies
Get up to speed on Honduras, ex-banana republic and home of the first Latin American coup since the end of the Cold War.
Honduras coup didn’t come from nowhere
For weeks, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya — an erratic leftist who styles himself after his good pal Hugo Chávez of Venezuela — has been engaged in a naked and illegal power grab, says Glenn Garvin.
Honduras president ousted in coup
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has been arrested and forced into exile in a military coup, following growing conflict over his plans to change the constitution to enable his re-election.
Fiji unravels: the view from the blogosphere
The Fiji blogosphere chats about Frank Bainimarama’s fear of a coup within a coup of his 3 coups.
Pakistan is the place to watch (this is not good)
Pakistan has been shoved in the too-hard basket for years now, simply because it was a bit too real to fit into the “war on terror” framework. It has nukes, and any fair electoral process is bound to put Islamic fundamentalists into power sooner or later, writes Guy Rundle.
Turkey in grip of election fever, but a nice place to visit
That’s democracy and freedom in the West’s official good Muslim state, which I must say is also a fantastic easygoing place, full of douceur de vie, especially compared with the grim soft-1984 CCTV hell of the UK.
