Hondurans in Tegucigalpa surround Braziliam Embassy this afternoon, upon learning Manuel Zelaya is inside. Photo by Sandra Cuffe.

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Since June 2009, Honduras has seen it’s democratically elected leader, President Manuel Zelaya, ousted from government and sent into exile. He now resides in sanctuary at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Canadian journalist Dawn Paley (Dominion Newpaper, MediaCoop.ca) is spending a month in Honduras to uncover Canadian corporate and government involvement in the coup d’etat. Since the coup, Honduran civil society has risen up and taken to the streets by the tens of thousands to demand a return to democratic rule by re-instating President Zelaya. The de facto government, headed by Porfirio Lobo, held elections on November 29th, that saw a record low turnout.

The pro-coup regime has used violence to instill fear in the resistance, yet voices continue to speak out, such as Radio Globo, an anti-coup radio station operating in Honduras.

CKDU had the chance to do an exclusive interview with Dawn Paley for Operation Wake Up, on December 11, 2009.

A SPECIAL BROADCAST TO INVESTIGATE HAITI SINCE THE COUP: FIVE YEARS OF RESISTANCE.

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On Operation Wake Up
CKDU 88.1fm
Tuesday to Friday,
March 10th to 13th,
8 AM to 9 AM.

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Five years ago, Canadian soldiers participated in a military operation to overthrow Haiti’s elected government. In the weeks following the 2004 coup d’état, minimum wages were rolled back, ministries were closed, corporate taxation was canceled, and Haitian activists who criticized the new order did so at the risk of their liberty or their lives. Today, after five years of neoliberal “shock therapy”, Canadian personnel remain in Haiti under the cover of a UN mission. Haiti remains Canada’s other, untalked-of, occupation, along with Afghanistan.

The shows will feature in-depth interviews with Haitian union leaders, progressive politicians, and rights advocates, and a panel discussion with members of the Canada Haiti Action Network (CHAN). This special programme will aim to explore Canada’s strategy and praxis in Haiti as indicative of its broader imperialist designs through the Caribbean and the Latin American regions, and to highlight and celebrate the patterns of the Haitian people’s resistance to those designs.

For more information, please call the CKDU News Collective at 494-2585.