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US embassy announces plans for “military cooperation”

[Translation of an article from La Jornada of Mexico City for June 28.]

by Arturo Cano

Tegucigalpa, June 27 – So much time spent saying that nothing is happening just to end up with a headline that admits, “A year later, Honduras is still polarized.” The news agencies spread the word but, with no apologies, the news media take it back, the same media that for a year have marketed the idea of “institutional normality,” even at the most critical times after the coup d’état of June 28, 2009, when President José Manuel Zelaya was abducted from his home, still in his pajamas, and was expatriated. (more…)

[Translation of an article from Tiempo of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, for June 28, based on an Agence France Presse dispatch.]

Tegucigalpa – As of Monday, a year after the coup d’état in Honduras, the country is still polarized between proponents of the overthrow of President Manuel Zelaya and his supporters, who have been holding demonstrations since yesterday to demand a constituent assembly.

“Everything is the same here. I have two daughters, one is a golpista [a supporter of the coup], the other is with the resistance, and they are both medical students,” says Carlos Hernández, a 51-year-old cab driver. (more…)