Weekly Report - 1 July 2010 (WR-10-26)

One year after Manuel Zelaya was ousted as president of Honduras on 28 June 2009, the Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular (FNRP), which sprang up to support Zelaya, formed an alternative truth commission to investigate the coup and its causes. Zelaya continues to get news coverage: his return, with full guarantees, is being billed as a prerequisite for the recognition of Honduras by many Latin American countries. Of more long-term significance one year on, however, is the national consolidation of the FNRP as a credible pressure group opposed to the reactionary political and economic elites that sponsored the coup and devoted to pushing for a constituent assembly to shake up the country's democratic institutions and increase citizen participation.