“We were a group of students who wanted to put into effect our right to communicate. We figured we had the right to emit information as well as receive it, and we couldn’t identify with any radio on the air. So we created our own.” Ernesto Lamas is talking about La Tribu, the Buenos Aires-based community radio station that turned 20 years old on 19th June.

In a surprise result, seven out of ten voters chose opposition parties in Argentina’s mid-term elections on 28th June, a result that has raised questions for the future of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s government. The administration lost their majority in both houses, with opposition parties now having control of Congress, and in the Senate the government now has exactly half of the seats.

On Sunday, 28th June Manuel Zelaya, the president of Honduras, was woken at 5:30 in the morning when more than 200 soldiers, members of his own army, forced their way in the presidential residence. They came, he told Democracy Now!, “with hoods and bulletproof vests, and rifles, aimed their guns at me, fired shots, used machine guns, kicked down the doors and just as I was, in pyjamas, they put me on an plane and flew me to Costa Rica.”

This December it will be 40 years since Fred Hampton, leader of the Chicago chapter and later chairman of the Illinois State Black Panther Party, was poisoned and then shot by the FBI. His young face looks out from the T-shirt of storyteller Michael D. McCarty as he walks on stage to give a talk to the assembled seniors of Jean Mermoz Secondary School in ritzy Belgrano, Buenos Aires.