from In These Times website. Lobo was elected, wasn't he? Ain't [US sponsored] "democracy" wonderful? Meanwhile the purges begin.
Dozens of peaceful resistance members have been killed by soldiers, police and government-funded paramilitaries since the armed coup against democratically-elected president Manuel Zelaya in June 2009. Even more worrisome, local human rights groups report that clandestine death squads, reminiscent of groups that terrorized the country in the 1980s, are once again roaming the streets at night.