Exclusive: Honduran elections exposed- Real News Network
Jesse Freeston reports on how election fraud was carried out during the recent elections in Honduras.
Tag: Honduran Elections 2009: Delegation Report-backs
Mercosur condemns illegitimate and illegal elections in Honduras
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) — Mercosur, the South American trade bloc led by Brazil and Argentina, condemned the “illegitimate and illegal” elections in Honduras after the interim government and congress failed to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
Letter from President Zelaya to Presidents of Latin America
Presidente Zelaya sends letter to Latin American Presidents asking them to stand firm in the defense of democracy and not to recognize illegitimate elections, “Every time a legitimate, elected government is overthrown in America, violence and terrorism win a battle and Democracy suffers a defeat.”
How to Cook an Election: Rare or Well Done?
Axis of Logic has begun an analysis of the data that’s available on the elections. Check out their article here.
An Election Validated by Blood and Repression: from The Real News
From the Real News. See all their video content on the coup.
Honduran coup government continues repressive tactics on election day (Report from San Pedro Sula) as the resistance vows to continue to fight for a new constitution and people’s rights.
US Flip-Flops on Honduras Vote
Analysis of the recent "election" of Porforio Lobo on the news station Russia Today.
Honduras government cancels school to avoid teacher activism
by Larry Kuehn
Common Frontiers/Quixote Center Accompaniment Delegation
The law in Honduras directs that the school year ends on November 30 and the new school year opens at the beginning of February. However, this year the coup government ordered schools to close on October 30 and to reopen on January 3 in 2010.
“Your only crime was walking down the street.”
As helicopters dropped tear gas canisters beside him, University of Montana senior Joseph Caldwell sprinted into his driver’s van, which sped him safely away from the smoke-filled streets.
From Tocoa to Tegucigalpa, “I didn’t vote!”
Tegucigalpa, November 30, 2009
Jackie McVicar, Common Frontiers Canada
After a long bus ride back from Tocoa in the northern department of Colon, we arrived in the capital today just in time to join a massive caravan organized by the Popular Resistance Front. Like the other demonstrations held since the coup d’etat on June 28, the mobilization winded through the "barrios", the neighborhoods in Tegucigalpa where supporters left their homes to show their support. This time, instead of walking, organizers decided to drive their cars in a caravan, to avoid confrontation or repression that they feared by the State security forces. Hundreds of cars and people drove through the streets honking their horns, with flags, horns and music. Both those in the caravan and people yelling support from the streets, "I didn’t vote!" showed their ink-less fingers, to show they had not been registered at a polling station where a finger print as part of your id is normally taken. Though the media is reporting record high turnouts for Sunday’s election, no one is buying it. One woman I interviewed who didn’t want to be identified because of fear ("if they see my picture, they [the military] will come after me"), said, "I have over 150 people in my [extended] family and not one went out to vote."