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Teams of volunteers and members of the Honduran armed forces worked around the clock last weekend to clean a wave of rubbish that washed up onto the usually pristine beaches of Omoa, along Honduras’ Caribbean coast. The “trash tsunami” appeared on Saturday, September 19, and Honduran authorities say it came from neighbouring Guatemala’s Motagua River. […]
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Honduras: Arrest in Caceres Murder a Feeble Attempt at Image Rehab
March 15th, 2018 
Awake Goy TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS — The March 3 arrest of a Honduran business executive, for allegedly orchestrating the 2016 murder of renowned environmentalist Berta Caceres, has not inspired widespread public confidence in law-enforcement, according to one activist. To the contrary, Karen Spring, the coordinator of Honduran Solidarity Network, told MintPress News, the arrest — two years to […]
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Tags: arrest, attempt, cáceres, feeble, honduras, image, Murder 
No Comments »Philippines, Honduras Are Embracing RFID Technology To Track Citizens’ Movements
March 11th, 2018 Awake Goy In the not-too-distant future, law enforcement will be able to easily track our movements thanks to microchips, which some workers – as we’ve previously reported. Indeed, some people are happily lining up to be microchipped – even throwing parties to celebrate their coworkers embracing the microchipping phenomenon, without any regard to how this […]
Posted in World News Tags: citizens, embracing, honduras, movements, Philippines, technology, track No Comments »Accompaniment In Honduras
February 5th, 2018 Awake Goy Accompaniment In Honduras Above: Protestors, during one of several torchlit protests in Tegucigalpa, head down a hill towards the US embassy where many demonstrations end. (Photo: Sean T. Hawkey) As the bus was taking our accompaniment delegation to Honduras to the airport for our return home, it stopped by the offices of Radio Progreso. Piling […]
Act Now In Solidarity With Honduras
January 27th, 2018 Awake Goy Once Washington recognized the president elect, the international community bent its knees…The power of the United States made itself felt with all of its force. All it took was for it to speak or the rest to break their silence. The protests against the fraud didn’t matter. It didn’t matter if there was or wasn’t […]
Mass protests in Honduras asking for the removal of ‘the corrupt’ who stole election
January 8th, 2018 Awake Goy “The people won’t stand for this dictatorship,” said former Opposition Alliance presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla. Despite heavy rains, an estimated 80,000 Honduran opposition supporters marched in San Pedro Sula on Saturday to protest what they call a “fradulent” presidential election. Surrounded by his supporters, former presidential candidate for the Opposition Alliance Salvador Nasralla told […]
Posted in World News Tags: asking, corrupt, election, honduras, protests, removal, stole No Comments »Armed by Israel, Honduras’s illegitimate regime returns the favor at the U.N.
December 22nd, 2017 Awake Goy Once again, Israel is supporting a repressive regime in the Global South, this time in the poor Central American nation of Honduras — and Israeli activists are protesting vigorously. Just after the November 26 election in Honduras, the results started to show a commanding margin for the pro-democracy opposition — until the vote-tabulating computers mysteriously […]
Posted in World News Tags: armed, favor, honduras, illegitimate, israel, regime, returns No Comments »OAS Calls For New Honduras Election After Coup-President Declared Winner
December 20th, 2017 Awake Goy The Organization of American States has called for fresh elections in Honduras, hours after President Juan Orlando Hernández was declared the winner. Luis Almagro – the secretary general of the OAS, a regional forum that sent an election observer mission to monitor the Honduran poll – said the process was plagued by irregularities, had “very low […]
Posted in World News Tags: after, Calls, declared, election, honduras, president, winner No Comments »The Left Sets Honduras on Fire
December 5th, 2017 Awake Goy Hillary Clinton’s favorite Central American was back in the news this week, as Honduras painstakingly counted ballots in front of international observers and tried to discern, with utmost transparency, the winner of the Nov. 26 presidential election. Amid the tension, left-wing candidate Salvador Nasralla cried fraud and called for an uprising. Soon, like a bad […]
Protests Continue On Honduras Amid Curfew, Police Repression
December 4th, 2017 Awake Goy Source Article from https://popularresistance.org/protests-continue-on-honduras-amid-curfew-police-repression/ Views: 0
Honduras Suspends Constitution As President ‘Flees’ Violence
December 3rd, 2017 Awake Goy The Honduran government has voted to suspend constitutional guarantees across the country as of 11 pm local time, hours after President Hernandez reportedly fled the country to avoid violent street protests in the wake of the disputed presidential election, Diario La Prensa has reported. The government has also implemented a curfew meant to deter people from […]
Posted in World News Tags: Constitution, flees, honduras, president, suspends, Violence No Comments »Honduras Elections: Turning the Tide of US-Backed Violence and Neoliberalism?
December 1st, 2017 Awake Goy HONDURAS (Analysis) — As Hondurans went to the polls to elect a new government Sunday, the country was looking both forward to the future and backward to a recent and tragic past. With the contest primarily between current right-wing President Juan Orlando Hernández (running for re-election despite being forbidden by the country’s constitution) and opposition […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: backed, Elections, honduras, neoliberalism, turning, Violence No Comments »Canada and the Military Coup in Honduras: A Conversation with Tyler Shipley
September 16th, 2017 Awake Goy Views: 0
Transcanada’s $15 Billion Suit Against US Corporate Nationhood At Its Worst
July 3rd, 2016 Awake Goy Print Friendly Above Photo: From occupy.com When the NAFTA nations – United States, Canada and Mexico – meet Wednesday for the annual Three Amigos Summit in Ottawa, climate change and clean energy are expected to dominate the agenda. However, a curiously timed $15 billion lawsuit launched last Friday by TransCanada, which is using NAFTA to sue […]
Power failure disrupts Brussels Airport departure area (PHOTOS)
June 10th, 2016 Awake Goy Power failure in several airport areas. We’re working hard on solving this asap. Sorry for the inconvenience, we’ll keep you posted. — Brussels Airport (@BrusselsAirport) June 10, 2016 Update: we’ve detected the cause of the power failure & are now fixing this. It may take some time before all systems are up and running. — […]
Posted in World News Tags: 61, aftershocks, Amp, el, honduras, nicaragua, quake, salvador, shake, strong No Comments »Wendy’s to replace thousands of cashiers with automated kiosks… $15 wage demands lead to accelerating unemployment and social unrest
May 20th, 2016 Awake Goy (NaturalNews) While whiney, over-privileged “safe space” millennials were marching through the streets demanding $15 an hour wages, fast food giants like Wendy’s were quietly working on automation innovations to make them obsolete. Now, Wendy’s has announced a rollout that would terminate the employment of thousands of cashiers by replacing them with automated kiosks […]
Posted in World News Tags: activists, attack, brutally, employees, environmentalists, fight, honduras, indigenous, industry, machetes, murdered, peoples, rights No Comments »Wendy’s to replace thousands of cashiers with automated kiosks… $15 wage demands lead to accelerating unemployment and social unrest
May 19th, 2016 Awake Goy (NaturalNews) While whiney, over-privileged “safe space” millennials were marching through the streets demanding $15 an hour wages, fast food giants like Wendy’s were quietly working on automation innovations to make them obsolete. Now, Wendy’s has announced a rollout that would terminate the employment of thousands of cashiers by replacing them with automated kiosks […]
Posted in World News Tags: activists, attack, brutally, employees, environmentalists, fight, honduras, indigenous, industry, machetes, murdered, peoples, rights No Comments »Simple Secret To Making A Difference—No Matter What Your Cause Is
April 19th, 2016 Awake Goy Print Friendly Above Photo: Dipak Shelare / Shutterstock.com It’s so easy you won’t believe you didn’t think of it first. In my travels and conversations this year, I’ve been encouraged that grass-roots people of all progressive stripes (populist, labor, liberal, environmental, women, civil libertarian, et al.) are well aware of the slipperiness of “victory” and want […]
Victims of HPV Vaccine in Japan Will Sue State and Vaccine Makers
April 13th, 2016 Awake Goy In the U.S., the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has been a subject of controversy from the very beginning after Merck’s Gardasil vaccine was licensed in 2006.1 Japan is one of the many nations raising concerns about HPV vaccine following persistent reports that girls are suffering severe adverse effects after getting vaccinated.2 Controversy Surrounding […]
59 Journalists Murdered in Honduras Since Clinton-Backed Coup
April 13th, 2016 Awake Goy Source: teleSUR Since the 2009 U.S.-backed coup that removed President Manuel Zelaya, 59 journalists have been assassinated in Honduras, with four of them being murdered just in 2016 alone. The most violent year until now has been 2015, with 218 alerts registered and 12 journalists assassinated. In April 2015, the […]
