
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) A small but militant picket gathered outside the Honduras embassy in London on June 28, 2010, to mark the first anniversary of the military coup and show our solidarity with the people's resistance. Similar actions took place in other parts of the world.
On June 28th, the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was taken by the Army, put on a plane and sent to Costa Rica. The military coup, organised with the knowledge of the US embassy and the support of the local oligarchy, installed Roberto Micheletti in power.
Eva Golinger, journalist, attorney and author of 'The Chavez Code', recently wrote an opinion piece in a popular daily newspaper in favour of Venezuelan relations with the genocidal government of Sri Lanka which has caused much shock and unease. As a strong defender of the Venezuelan revolution many people rightly respect Golinger's work, and for this reason we give space to some of the responses in a wish to open up debate.
As part of their visit to Britain in May 2010 to attend the Hands Off Venezuela conference, Venezuelan revolutionaries Katy Jaimes and Elias Chacón also spoke at fringe meetings at the conferences of the Public Commercial and Services Union in Brighton and the Communication Workers Union in Bournemouth.