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On 28 June 2009 moderately left-of-centre Honduran president, Manuel ‘Mel’ Zelaya, was overthrown in a military coup d’etat. The coup was followed by the systematic repression of anti-coup activists and the eventual election of current president, Porfirio ‘Pepe’ Lobo, amid that repression and in the absence of constitutional democracy. While critical scholarship on the international dynamics of the Honduran coup has discussed evidence of US involvement, Canada also actively intervened politically. Canada’s intervention has been marked by the bold promotion of the interests of Canadian capital operating in Honduras, as part of a wider geopolitical concern of the Canadian state to reproduce a political environment in Latin America amenable to the interests of Canadian investors. Using interviews with Honduran activists organizing against the coup and Canadian capital, as well as Canadian government documents obtained through Access to Information, this article explores the political-economic strategies of Canada’s post-coup intervention in Honduras. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the socio-economic condition of indigenous peoples (IPs) in Honduras as of January 2014. Topics include the controversy surrounding the results of the November 2013 elections, the country's political history, and the process of indigenous and Afro-indigenous struggle. Also tackled are the general outlook for IPs in Honduras, challenges facing IPs, and IPs' pursuance of struggle and resistance processes.

Abstract: How do national social programs influence local voting? This study utilizes the experimental set up of a conditional cash transfer program to show that small, targeted cash transfers can have large electoral effects. The Honduran PRAF program allocated an average of $18 per capita per year to poor households within municipalities that were randomly assigned to receive the program. Although the program was administered at the national level, the program increased an incumbent mayor's re-election probabilities by 39%, without significantly influencing voting behavior in presidential elections. Moreover, the evidence suggests that transferring cash to poor households were more effective at increasing political support than interventions providing public goods for poor villages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the social unrest and politics within the territory on the Atlantic Ocean coast of Honduras and Nicaragua during the late 18th century referred to as Mosquito Shore, or Mosquitia. An overview of the relations between Great Britain and Spain in vying for imperial sovereignty over the Mosquitia, including in their relations with the Miskitu Indian rulers, is provided.

The article examines the socio-political state of Honduras since its transition to democracy in 1980. According to the author, the Honduran military asserted its brand of authoritarianism for nearly two decades by marginalizing political parties and fragmenting social movements and protests. In 1980, Honduras' first transitional democratic government was elected into office in open elections.

This article examines the capital of Honduras--Tegucigatpa--focusing on its "twin cities" of Comayagüela and Tegucigalpa, examining the relationships between topographic and socioeconomic exclusion, structural and symbolic violence, and the application of neoliberal policies. It explores the city post-hurricane Milch and post-coup d'État using historical and ethnographic data to shed Light on Tegucigalpa, the troubled political center of a corporatizing State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the political challenges faced by Honduras which started when Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was removed from his post. It says that Zelaya's removal was due to his insistence on violating the Honduran Constitution, which is to remove the one-term limit of presidency. It mentions the importance of nations such as Venezuela and the U.S. in the country's crisis. It adds that the Venezuelan domestic challenges demonstrated the demise of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez' influence in Latin America. It also mentions that the U.S. successfully ended the Honduran political crisis after Undersecretary Thomas Shannon carried out the negotiations. It concludes that Latin America emerged from the crisis as a mature political region.

This article describes an unusual coup that removed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya from office in 2009. Although Zelaya was arrested at his residence by military officers and sent to Costa Rica, the removal was not ordered by military officers who were planning to put themselves in power. The removal of Zelaya was approved by the country's highest court and with the near-unanimous support of the National Congress. After Zelaya's removal, the control of the country was given to a civilian interim government. The article explains the circumstances that resulted in Zelaya's removal.

This article examines the complicated histories of two competing development tropes in postwar Honduras: food security and food sovereignty. Food security emerged as a construct intertwined with land security and national food self-sufficiency soon after the militant, peasant-led movement for national agrarian reform in the 1970s. The transnational coalition, La Via Campesina, launched their global food sovereignty campaign in the 1990s, in part to counter the global corporate industrial agro-food system. Cultural and political analysis reveals challenges for each trope. Food security resonates with deeply held peasant understandings of seguridad for their continued social reproduction in insecure social and natural conditions. In contrast, the word sovereignty, generally understood as powers of nation states, faces semantic confusion and distance from rural actors' lives. Moreover, Honduras's national peasant unions, weakened by funding cuts and neoliberal assaults on agrarian reform, diverted by their own efforts to help establish the transnational La Via Campesina, have been unable and, in some cases, unwilling to campaign effectively for food sovereignty. In addition, a parallel network of NGO-supported sustainable agriculture centres has largely embraced the peasant understandings of food security, while remaining skeptical of 'mismanaged, modernist' agrarian reform and the food sovereignty campaign. Attention turns to structural analysis of the steady decline of agriculture, economy and social life in the Honduran countryside, while also identifying potentially hopeful local-national solidarities between peasant union and sustainable agriculture leaders within the popular resistance movement to the recent military coup. This article finds that transnational agrarian movements and food campaigns tend to ignore local peasant understandings, needs, and organisations at their own peril. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a campaign by the U.S. government to legitimize the June 28, 2009 Honduran military coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya and to recognize the government of Roberto Micheletti and his successor Porfirio Lobo. The author states that the U.S. State Department remained silent on the well documented human rights violations committed by the police and military of the de facto government and repeatedly expressed support for the amnesty of all involved in the coup and the de facto government.

The article reports on the legitimacy of the November 29, 2009 presidential election in Honduras. Porfirio Lobo of the right-wing Nationalist Party defeated Liberal Party candidate Elvin Santos in the election held during the de facto government of Roberto Micheletti who came to power after a military coup that removed President Manuel Zelaya. The United Nations and the Organization of American States reportedly condemned the coup and majority of South American powers refused to recognize the election.

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The article briefly presents the most relevant facts occurred in Honduras in the period from 2005, when the presidential and legislative elections took place, until nowadays. The text basically posits the 2005 as an electoral year where change and continuity have been intertwined and thus pays attention to the doses of such interaction. In particular, the article focuses on the changes in the electoral rules governing the election, which in turn have not visibly affected the political dynamics, neither concerning the agenda of the government nor the context of unified government which ensures the support to this agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the early 1980s, support for trade unions was a significant component of Oxfam GB's programmes in various parts of the world, most notably Central America and South Africa. In Central America, this was motivated both because organised labour played an important role in popular movements that were pressing for equitable political settlements to the wars ravaging the region, and because unions as such, as well as their members and leaders, were the targets of repression and political violence. This article explores the background to the rise in funding for unions in Honduras, reflects on this experience, and discusses some of the factors that might change a potentially awkward donor-recipient relationship to one of dialogue and solidarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes that findings in existing literature concerning the policy priorities of women legislators in Nordic countries, the United States, and Argentina may also be generalized to less developed countries where support for women in politics is minimal. Past studies in countries where women have achieved comparatively high levels of representation report that women legislators show a higher legislative priority on issues concerning women's rights and children and families. Using data on bill initiation, this paper analyzes gender differences in the Honduran Congress from the 1990-93 and 1994-97 terms. Findings are similar to previous studies in that women appear to place a higher priority on women's rights issues; however, we find that women do not have a higher priority than men on children's and family issues. Examination of bill debate shows that women are more frequent participants in debates of bills involving women's rights and children's and family issues than of bills concerning issues that have traditionally concerned men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Probes into the political implications of the 1998 Hurricane Mitch in Honduras. Views of Noemi Espinoza, president of the Christian Commission for the Development on Hurricane Mitch; Effect of Hurricane Mitch on the military institution of Honduras; Controversy on the repeal of Article 107 of the Honduran Constitution concerning landownership of foreigners.

Discusses the exploration of Honduran politics by examining both national historical development and the cooption of popular protest by military reformism in the 1970s. Traditional explanation of Honduran difference; Military reformism in Honduras; Effects on the popular movement.

Discusses the distrust of Hondurans to the electoral and democratic process in their country. Change in United States' policy towards Honduras; Reduction of the military establishment's power; Honduras' economic crisis; Democratic consolidation and public support.

Discusses the relationship between electoral politics and the military in Honduras. President Jose Azcona Hoyo; Liberal party (PL); National party (PN); Economy; Human rights; Drug trafficking and corruption; Military chief General Humberto Regalado Hernandez.

Studies the political conditions in Honduras as of December 1986. Views on the presidency of Jose Azcona Hoyo; Patching up of growing differences between the U.S. and the government of Honduras; Power held by the military in Honduras; Impact of the contras in Honduras emerging as a major issue of debate.

Describes the political and economic conditions in Honduras. Prospects for the return of military rule in the country; Election history; Political practice; Problems in politics and society; Relations with the U.S. government and the local involvement of the American military forces; Existence of guerilla movements and the deployment of public security forces; Implications for politics and internal security.

The article focuses on the social, economic, and political condition in Honduras. National campesino leader Santos Cruz says that the powerful politicians in the country make their own laws and are fighting among each other. It mentions that the National Front of Popular Resistance movement opposes the plan of the government to build "Model Cities" along the Caribbean coast. It adds that critics have described Model Cities concept as violating civil and labor rights.

The article presents a discussion in historical perspective on the political crisis and the coup d'etat triggered in Honduras. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the political and economic problems of Honduras in the 1980s. Disastrous effects of the region's conflicts for the nation; Lack of strength or will to promote a peaceful solution; President José Azcona Hoyo's warning that citizens must continue to defend the country's territorial integrity; Image of uncertainty and high risk that discouraged tourism and foreign investments; Problems associated with refugees seeking sanctuary in Honduras.