Articles by Dana Frank

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How Low Can Honduras Go?
Dana Frank – The Nation, 22 Oct 2012

The Obama adminstration’s “partnership” with the ongoing coup regime in Honduras is getting harder to defend every day—with every act of brutality against the opposition committed by the corrupt government and its allies.

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Honduras in Flames
Dana Frank – The Nation, 20 Feb 2012

The Comayagua fire must be understood in the context of the near-total breakdown of the Honduran state since the June 28, 2009, military coup that overthrew democratically elected President José Manuel Zelaya. The danger, now, is that the Honduran police and military will take advantage of the prison fire to further justify a rapidly increasing militarization of Honduran society, as Oscar Estrada, who has studied the Honduran prison system, warns. Indeed, the government already passed a controversial law in November 2011 allowing the military to take over ordinary police functions.

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US: Wrong on Honduras
Dana Frank – The Nation, 24 Jan 2011

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela and many other countries continue to oppose Honduras’s readmission to the Organization of American States (OAS)…. US. Representative Llorens’s leaked cable further calls into question the Obama administration’s eager embrace of current President Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo in a bogus November 2009 election, which was managed by the coup perpetrators and boycotted by most of the opposition and international observers. Since the coup, the United States has constructed two new military bases in Honduras (in Gracias a Dios and on the island of Guanaja), ramped up police training and, most recently, on December 27, announced that drones will be operating out of the joint US/Honduras air force base at Palmerola.

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Crisis of Legitimacy in Honduras?
Dana Frank – The Nation, 5 Jul 2010

A long, brutal year after the June 28, 2009, military coup that deposed President Manuel “Mel” Zelaya, official Honduras is collapsing under the weight of its own illegitimacy. On the anniversary of the coup, the opposition took over the nation’s highways and bridges in overt resistance to Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo’s new government, while his own appointees are openly defiant of the slightest concession. The Obama administration, meanwhile, remains insistent that Lobo is the only path forward.

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