Day: August 10, 2009

This Week in the Americas Dear friends, We’ve been covering the coup in Honduras since before it happened—some 40 days ago now. That’s the standard quarantine period, a biblical reference traditionally observed

Hondurans protest against Batallion 3-16.Photo: Mirian Huezo Emanuelsson. The coup d’etat in Honduras on June 28 shook the world, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean. It was the first coup d’etat

A week before Obama’s scheduled trip to Mexico, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) made it clear that he would block the human rights report on Mexico that is set as a condition for