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Hondurans took to the streets in defense of President Manuel Zelaya and were brutally repressed. | Photo: Ordén Mundial​

Havana, June 28 (RHC)-- June 28th marks a new anniversary of the coup that removed the constitutional president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya.  In the early morning hours twelve years ago, he was forcibly kidnapped from his residence and expelled to Costa Rica.

During his government, Mel Zelaya, who began his mandate in January 2006, joined the Petrocaribe initiative, the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), supported Cuba and the government of then president of Bolivia, Evo Morales.

Now, twelve years after the coup that was supported by the Obama administration in the White House, Honduras is living without a democracy, poverty and violence have been widespread, as well as fraud and the protected transit of drugs, according to the ousted president Manuel Zelaya.

According to analysts, since the coup against Zelaya, Honduras is socially and politically divided.  Problems have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which has left 6,922 dead and 260,331 infected since March 2020, when the pandemic began to spread.