Three months after the coup that toppled him and after much international debate about his ouster, leftist President Manuel Zelaya returned to Honduras on Monday. He went back to the country with his wife and aides, and is now sheltered and giving media interviews in the Brazilian embassy ‘to avoid arrest.’
The coup that ousted Zelaya [...]

Evidence has surfaced showing the connection between the supporters of deposed President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya and the largest South American supplier of illegal drugs to North America: the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). This is the missing link that directly explains why Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been openly working on Zelaya being [...]

Central America’s political climate is not unique. Wherever there is a leader that aspired to be a dictator, there always seems to be a military coup fashioned to topple him, and whenever there is insurmountable civil oppression due to abuses of power, there always seems to be a resulting civil war. Confrontations in Central America [...]

Hugo Chavez’s left-wing socialist swing translates to crackdown on private property such as foreign oil company assets, as well as an ‘undisputed control of the three branches of government and windfall profits from the 2003-08 oil boom.’
As far as his promise to make life in Venezuela economically better, data show that all his bluster and [...]

‘The Honduran military ousted and exiled leftist President Zelaya in what was Central America’s first military coup since the Cold War.’ The move was triggered by Zelaya’s attempt to legalize an extension of his power timetable. In other words, Zelaya wanted to tinker with the country’s Constitution to seek another term of office, a sensitive [...]

After the apparent failure of political negotiations and blockade of dialogue to resolve the crisis, the European Commission announced on Monday that it is freezing $90m of aid to Honduras. “Given the circumstances, I have taken the difficult decision to suspend all budgetary support payments,” said External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner. For now, the aid [...]

The coup d’etat in the small Central American nation of Honduras reveals the deep divisions of the area.
The Venezuelan president’s Hugo Chávez leftist followers’ triumphal march provoked the established elites. The instinctive reaction in Honduras was, once again, to give a coup. The frontier area between Honduras and Nicaragua has a suffering history.
In the eighties, [...]

The UN General Assembly approved a resolution that calls for the ‘immediate and unconditional’ return of President Manuel Zelaya to Honduras as a ‘legitimate and constitutional’ move. The deposed President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, came to New York to address the UN General Assembly and ask for support from the international community regarding his return [...]

The president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was arrested by the military on this morning and taken to Air Force installations, according to his private secretary, Eduardo Enrique Reina, and the local press.
Zelaya was arrested by the military between 5am and 6am. He was in the presidential palace when he was arrested. The official residence [...]

Cocoa did not make its entrance into North America in the 15th century, as we always thought. The delicious concoction arrived about 400 years before, from the southwest. This is revealed in a study published in the journal National Academy of Sciences. The research explains the discovery of traces of cocoa on shards of pottery [...]