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The Return of the Thugs in Honduras (and Their American Apologists!)

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 13:01 — Dave Culver


  • Payback time for questioning the Honduran coup and the shady November elections. Payback time, death squad style.
  • The Bodies Are Still Piling Up in Honduras
  • Informal Empire: The Case of Honduras

James Cavallaro, HumanRights.Change.org

Yesterday (March 9) , the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued a statement denouncing a wave of attacks against those who resisted the June 2009 military coup d’etat. According to the Commission, this past month, a series of kidnappings, murders and sexual assaults have targeted leaders of the resistance movement. The hemisphere’s leading inter-governmental, human rights investigatory body wrote, “it appears that sons and daughters of leaders of the Resistance Front are being killed, kidnapped, attacked, and threatened as a strategy to silence the activists.”

What’s happening? Well, the evidence fairly clearly suggests this: now that international attention has turned away from Honduras, authoritarian politicians and their henchmen are crushing their opponents. Payback time for questioning the Honduran coup and the shady November elections. Payback time, death squad style.

SC may gut programs for 26,000 disabled residents

Wed, 03/03/2010 - 12:16 — Dave Culver


  • Shutting down everything but federally required residential care is "the most draconian kind of thing I've heard," said Andrew J. Imparato, chief executive of the American Association of People with Disabilities
  • SC politician's 'stray animals' welfare remark called 'immoral'

Jim Davenport, Associated Press

Lawmakers are considering cutting all services for nearly 26,000 people with disabilities as South Carolina tries to plug a $560 million budget hole.
Parents say the proposed cuts to day care programs and other services would force them to give up much-needed jobs to stay home and care for their young and adult children.

Andrew J. Imparato, chief executive of the American Association of People with Disabilities, said he is hearing horror stories about budget cuts around the country, but South Carolina is the most extreme example. Shutting down everything but federally required residential care is "the most draconian kind of thing I've heard," he said.

Lawmakers say they have little choice. They are trying to close a shortfall in next year's budget in a heavily Republican state where tax increases are not considered a viable option.