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Oct 02, 2009 A Promise to Restore Civil Liberties Is Slow to Become Reality in Honduras

QUOTE: The de facto president of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, appeared to have bowed to pressure at home and from abroad on Monday, saying that he would lift his order suspending civil liberties. Since then, he has been in no hurry to keep his promise.

 New York Times
Jul 09, 2009 In Honduras, One-Sided News of Crisis: Critics Cite Slanted Local Coverage, Limits on Pro-Zelaya Outlets

QUOTE: in Honduras, some of the most popular and influential television stations and radio networks blacked out coverage or adhered to the de facto government's line that Manuel Zelaya's overthrow was not a coup but a legal "constitutional substitution,"...

 Washington Post
Jul 02, 2009 Honduras Targets Protesters With Emergency Decree: Media in Country Also Feel Pressure

QUOTE: The new Honduran government clamped down on street protests and news organizations Wednesday as lawmakers passed an emergency decree that limits public gatherings following the military-led coup that removed President Manuel Zelaya from office.

 Washington Post
Jun 27, 2007 Deportees' Bittersweet Homecoming: Migration is Boon, Bane for Honduras

QUOTE: The current debate over immigration reform in the United States, where an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants live, has caused hope and anxiety here, because it holds out both the promise of legalizing tens of thousands of Hondurans now in the United States and the threat of a harsher crackdown near the border, which about 90,000 Hondurans attempt to cross illegally each year.

 Washington Post
Dec 06, 2004 A Harsh Price to Pay in Pursuit of a Dream: For Central American Women, Sexual Coercion Is Hazard on Route to U.S.

QUOTE: "If you come to my office and lie down with me, you can pass." That was the ... price of passage to the United States.

 Washington Post
Sep 26, 2004 TATTOOED WARRIORS: The Next Generation; Shuttling Between Nations, Latino Gangs Confound the Law

QUOTE:...many human rights advocates and community leaders worry that the aggressive measures governments are taking against gangs have not solved the problem as much as they have spread it.

 New York Times
Oct 29, 2003 Rights Group Targets Rapper's Clothing Line

QUOTE: Members of a workers-rights organization alleged Tuesday that hip-hop impresario Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' clothing line is being manufactured in a Honduran sweatshop that fires workers for being pregnant.

 Los Angeles Times
Oct 12, 2001 Legal Self-Defense in Responses to Terrorism: Fairness.com Interview with Robert F. Turner

QUOTE: Was the U.S. attack on Afghanistan and its Taliban leadership that began October 7, 2001 justified under U.S. and international law? Was it moral?

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