In Honduras, a crowd of more than 2,000 marched on the US embassy Thursday to protest the Obama administration’s refusal to pressure the coup regime. The protest came one day after the State Department said it won’t impose trade sanctions on the coup government and appeared to blame ousted President Manuel Zelaya for his own overthrow. Protest organizer Juan Barahona said the US stance is keeping the coup regime in power.

Juan Barahona: “The government of the United States is two-faced: on the one side, they say they are against the coup, but on the other side, they are supporting it. And that is why the coup leaders are still in power.”