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The Obama Administration’s stand on the recent coup in Honduras has many scratching their heads. While the President has denounced the anti-democratic move by a conservative regime to snatch power, tens of millions of US dollars are still going to the post-coup government under the umbrella of the Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC). Within days of coups in Mauritania and Madagascar, the US cut off MCC aid money. Democratic members of Congress have asked the President to freeze the assets of coup leaders and deny them entry into the US. On Tuesday Washington announced it has temporarily frozen the issuing of US visas in Honduras. Meanwhile, Republicans leaders have threatened to delay a key Senate vote in opposition to what they see as Obama’s efforts to reinstate the democratically elected left-leaning government of Manuel Zelaya. A delegation from the Organization of American States this week announced that it had failed to break the on-going deadlock. Meanwhile, in light of a recent Amnesty International report of violence against coup resisters which we covered last week, new reports of attacks on independent media in Honduras have been trickling out. The Committee to Protect Journalists reported that masked men stormed into the offices of two media outlets supportive of Manuel Zelaya last weekend. Radio Globo and Channel 36 had their equipment and transmitted damaged during the attack.

GUEST: Dr. Juan Almandares, medical doctor, human rights activist, environmental leader, and a prominent member of the anti-coup resistance in Honduras, founder of Movimiento Madre Tierra Honduras, and former president of the Autonomous National University of Honduras, Gerardo Torres with Los Necios