Salomón Lerner Febres, el filósofo que encabezó la Comisión de la Verdad y la Reconciliación en el Perú, ha recibido una andanada de amenazas mortales. Sus dos perros fueron envenenados a muerte por quienes prometen proporcionarle un trato semejante. Los incidentes han tenido lugar en el contexto de ataques arteros contra Lerner y contra la Comisión del Museo de la Memoria de la que es

 

The Honorable Hillary Clinton
Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520


September 5, 2009


Dear Secretary Clinton:

I am writing to request that the United States reconsider its recent actions regarding the suspension of aid to Honduras.

As you know, Honduras has been an outpost of American policy and capitalism for over 100 years.  For most of the 20th century,

 Choloma

Cortes, Honduras. The US embassy in Tegucigalpa will soon stop issuing visas to most applicants in its efforts to pressure the current Honduran government to reinstate its ousted president, Manuel Zelaya.  This on top of the suspension of $18 million in military aid the US provided annually. 

Zelaya was deposed on June 28 by the military, the Honduran Congress, the monied elites, and with

 

 

I had to escape the mid-day sun of Los Girasoles in Santo Domingo so I stopped at a corner bar at a busy intersection in the middle of town.  And as the Presidentes started to kick in the room came into focus.  It's a typical corner bar, the kind you find all over the Dominican Republic--large, jukebox blaring, open patios on both sides.

Except it's all men.  I mean all men.  Specifically, young

In the US, the days before Stonewall are mostly behind us, but this is not the case in much of Latin America. In some countries there is overt harassment and repression by the state itself, often under the guise of violating morals and decency laws. 

Take Honduras, for example.  In the 1990s there were over 200 murders of gay and transgender sex workers that were not investigated by police.  In 2002 the President of Honduras enacted the Social and Co-Existence Law, giving police the right to arrest people they suspected of being LGBT, and to raid gay gathering places. In 2004 the mayor of San Pedro Sula, Honduras authorized a raid on Boyz, the city's only gay bar, which resulted in the arrest of twelve patrons and workers.  Does this sound like a place where it's ok to be gay?

 

- Esto es historia pura -, dice Ivonne Malaver al filo de la 1:00 p.m. mientras parquea. El sol ilumina las calles aunque los últimos días de invierno hacen sentir su presencia. Varios agentes de policía aguardan en sus patrullas. Entramos a la iglesia Internacional, ubicada en Hunting Park Av. al norte de Filadelfia. Una mujer acicalada me da un papel titulado: Derechos Básicos y Precauciones

Parents with their children and infants, elderly people, politicians in suits and a swarm of journalists fill the vast auditorium of the International Church, located on Hunting Park Avenue in North Philadelphia. The drop ceiling and brick walls give it an appearance of a convention center room, different from other traditional churches. A Dominican woman intones a religious song, gives a sermon and sings again. "The problem is that we don't believe, we think we can do it by ourselves," she says.

¿Cuándo? ¿Dónde? y ¿Quién? llevará a juicio las atrocidades denunciadas en Guantánamo no se sabe. Pero está pendiente un juicio.

Las evidencias de torturas en esta base estadounidense en Cuba cargo del gobierno del ex presidente George W. Bush están archivadas por las organizaciones de Derechos Humanos.

My boy is huge.  Hairwise that is.  David is 11 years old with hair that measures 8 inches.  As you can see, his hair is bigger than his head and bigger than the football helmet he wears.  He sports a curly Angela Davis -type afro.  It covers his eyes at this point, reminding me of Cousin Itt from the Addams Family.  He loves his hair and so do I.

I should point out that my boy lives and attends