Honduras: Teargassed Open For Business http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1105/S00164/honduras-teargassed-open-for-business.htm

All this state-sponsored repression of demonstrations in March and April comes on top of an unrelenting daily bombardment of death threats, harassment, and assaults by paramilitaries and other extralegal agents, directed against all sectors of the opposition. In the capital, rocks rain down on cars in the parking of the union hall where many opposition meetings take place. In San Pedro Sula, an unmarked car routinely lurks daily outside the office of the Centro de Derecho de Mujeres (Center for Women's Rights) shadowing Maria Elena Sabillón, an attorney who represents victims of domestic violence. Transgender women show up dead in alleyways and garbage dumps.

Through all of this, the Obama administration's response has been to blame the victim. In response to queries from U.S. human rights activists when Garifuna leader Miriam Miranda was seized, Jeremy Spector, the U.S. Embassy's Human Rights and Labor Attaché in Tegucigalpa, wrote back with an extended attack on the teachers for being violent, called on them to return to the classroom, and insisted that Ilse Velásquez was merely "run over by a press vehicle."

And the State Department enthusiastically backs not only Lobo but the neo-liberal economic agenda behind the coup, which the Honduran congress is swiftly trying to enact. "Since the first day President Lobo took office he has focused on...the creation of investment to generate employment with the support of the national congress by establishing the legal framework to gain the confidence of domestic and international investors," Eduardo Atala, President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Honduras, summarized coyly on April 14.

[also see...The role of USAID in the New Selloff of Honduras http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/05/role-of-usaid-in-new-selloff-of.html