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GRITtv: Honduras: We Refuse To Go Back

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The coup in Honduras has all but been forgotten these days, but the people's struggle there goes on. Jose Alcoff was there recently, and contributed this exclusive report recapping the turmoil and checking in with the social movements there about what will happen next.

GRITtv: Shot in the Back: The Honduran Coup

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The response to the coup d'etat in Honduras went from tepid to swept under the rug completely, but Hondurans still live with the effects of the military removal of their democratically elected leader. In this video from Witness for Peace, we look at the ongoing human impact of the coup.

GRITtv: Honduras Coup Flashpoint for Latin America

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The U.S. has decided to recognize the result of the recent elections in Honduras despite ongoing reports that the elections were boycotted and that the people consider them an extension of the coup. But will the coup in Honduras create larger problems for Latin America? What will its effects mean for the rest of Latin America, a region trending leftward in recent years? Nation contributor Greg Grandin and Sujatha Fernandes, Queens College professor join us in studio to discuss.

GRITtv: Blowback: From Latin America to Afghanistan

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The School of the Americas, now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at Fort Benning, Georgia, has long been a training facility for Latin American military officers, many of whom have gone on to be involved in gross human rights violations. We look back at the effects of US intervention in Latin America and connect the patterns to the current situations in Afghanistan and Iraq with Nation contributor Christian Parenti, the Rev.

GRITtv: Nothing Resolved in Honduras

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The announcement that the ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, would be returned to power in a power-sharing agreement seems to have come too soon. In this video from The Real News, we learn that the agreement seems to be doing more to legitimize the coup government than to get rid of it.

GRITtv: A Media Blackout in Honduras

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News from Honduras has been in short supply even though the standoff between ousted leader Manuel Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti continues. July 30 marked one of the bloodiest days since the military coup and efforts to achieve some kind of power sharing agreement between the two parties and ensure Zelaya's return have failed. So what's happening on the ground? And why aren't we hearing about it?

GRITtv: Greg Grandin: Echoes of the 80s In Honduras

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Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City and a professor of History at NYU, has spent the last few days in Honduras and reports on echoes of the 1980s and Latin America?s dirty wars as ousted leader Manuel Zelaya and his supporters camp out near the border in Nicaragua. Grandin says that according to international observer missions there have been at least eight deaths and disappearances and that some victims have shown signs of torture and strangulation.

GRITtv: What is Obama's Position on Honduras?

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Roberto Lovato, contributing associate editor at New America Media, and Andres Thomas Conteris, the founder of Democracy Now! en Espanol on the political impasse in Honduras and the US role in negotiations to reach a deal between the coup leaders and ousted president Manuel Zelaya. Obama may be paying lip service to the fact that the coup is illegitimate but the actions of the US State Department speak otherwise. Meanwhile, according to Lovato, the number of those who have been beaten, disappeared, and perhaps even killed continues to rise.

GRITtv: Eva Golinger: What Does the US Want in Honduras?

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Since Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was forcibly removed from power in a military coup, the US media have made the argument that the deposed leader was engineering plans to change the constitution in order to stay in power. At least that's how Charles Krauthammer characterized it recently on Fox news, without failing to compare Hugo Chavez to Hitler. That's in the US. But how is the coup in Honduras being covered in Latin America? We're joined by journalist Eva Golinger who has been covering the political developments from Venezuela.

SourceCode: Community/The Stranger

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SourceCode looks at America's shifting demographics - how the institutionalized threat of terrorism combined with an uncertain economy has created a climate hostile to immigrants. The advent of the REAL ID Act, increasing restrictions on legal immigration, growing small-town xenophobia, and renegade self-appointed border patrols are, however, matched by grass-roots groups assisting immigrants, even at great personal risk. We'll take you undercover with the Minutemen, as well as on a rescue mission with No More Deaths.

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