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The OAS meets in San Salvador Amid Protests Against Human Rights Abuses

On June 5th, 6th and 7th, El Salvador hosted the annual General Assembly of the Organization of American States. While representatives from 34 nations met in the La Feria Internacional in San Salvador and at nearby hotels to discuss security issues facing the region, Salvadorans and Hondurans protested the return of the post-coup government of […]

The Nation Reports on “Open Season on Teachers in Honduras”

http://www.thenation.com/article/160472/open-season-teachers-honduras Dana Frank May 5, 2011 In Honduras, it’s come to this: when 90 percent of the city’s 68,000 public schoolteachers went out on strike in March to protest the privatization of the entire public school system, the government teargassed their demonstrations for almost three solid weeks, then suspended 305 teachers for two to six months […]