Things are not looking that good on the human rights front in Honduras

By Jeremy Kryt

(TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS)  It was all supposed to be different once Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo took over as the new president of Honduras. Human rights crisis finished. Dictatorship deterred. Even after a highly-contested election in November--which most of the world refused to recognize and more than half of Hondurans didn't participate in--many both here and abroad still clung to the hope that a new executive officer might resolve what some experts have called a "one-sided civil war" because only the military-backed regime has employed violent means.

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