Honduras News

As the Honduran election approaches this Sunday, let's be clear about the conditions under which it is taking place.

A military jeep taking Honduran military policemen patrols in Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras, Nov.

A A A' Sunday's election will likely accomplish what the plotters of a coup set out to do five months ago: end the political career of leftist President Manuel Zelaya and replace him with a more moderate leader from Honduras' establishment.

'This state visit is ... a terrible mistake,' said Rep. Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.

On November 29 the election process will be shown online for the entire world to see. Hondurasvota2009.com is where you can go online to see the voting process including scrutiny of ballots and counting of votes. Suspicious acts should be reported to the Supreme Elections Tribunal. The idea is to bulletproof the elections from fraud. All reports can be made anonomously. I encourage everyone to pass the website along and on November 29 go online and watch the process for yourself and see Democracy in action. Help Honduras bring a close to the crisis.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Monday the United States has weakened efforts to reverse the coup that ousted him, while a U.S. envoy says his country has clearly opposed the ouster and will examine upcoming elections closely for fairness.

The coup last summer in this tiny, Central American country blew up into an international incident, with thousands of Hondurans taking to the streets while leaders from Barack Obama to Fidel Castro lined up behind ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

WOOD: Good afternoon, and happy Friday to all. Lach, it's good to see you. QUESTION: Yeah, good to see you at the podium.

Time is running out for a solution to the political crisis in Honduras, the U.S. State Department said Tuesday as senior government officials prepared to travel there to try to revive talks.

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Christopher Pearson had big credentials. He was a Mashantucket Pequot Indian, grandson of the woman credited with holding the tribe together through its leanest period.

Divisions over Honduras' political future are evident not only in the Central American country but also in South Florida as legal issues arise over elections.

Honduras' chief diplomat in Miami flips to page 117 of his nation's election manual and insists that his fellow countrymen living here must vote for their new president at the consulate in South Florida.

Sports apparel maker Russell Athletic says it will open a new factory in Honduras and rehire ousted union workers after widespread student protests on U.S. college campuses.

Congress in Honduras will not vote on whether to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya until after elections this month, a senior lawmaker said.

Honduran lawmakers will not decide whether to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya until after upcoming presidential elections, the congressional leader said Tuesday, a decision that could undermine international support for the vote.

the priest that was involved in the controversy and hid in the Brazilian embassy with Zelaya has been turned over to Salvadoran diplomats and his citizenship has been revoked. La Prensa and El Heraldo report that the Salvadoran embassy has said he will be returned to El Salvador on Wednesday. He lived in Honduras since the Salvadoran conflict and was also involved in the Nicaraguan conflict..he has an akin for getting himself in messes that priests frankly don´t belong in and always on the side of the socialists. He was removed from his priesthood in the church in Salama by the Vatican earlier this year. What Tamayo doesn´t realize is how lucky he is to be alive..in the 80s the Honduran special forces had an order to kill him and the person assigned with the task could not find it in himself to kill a priest. That is inside information I have from the person that was ordered to kill him..a good friend of my husband from the military days.

Tegucigalpa, Nov 16 The November 29 elections in Honduras will only worsen the crisis unleashed in Honduras after the military coup, due to the vast peoples'' rejection to hold elections under the de facto regime.

Submitted by fyl on Thu, 2009/11/12 - 16:28. [The following was posted to the Casa Ben Linder list.

By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON - In a renewed effort to save a U.S.-sponsored accord to resolve the five-month-old political crisis in Honduras, the U.S. State Department Friday called on both sides to create a government of national unity "without delay" and on the Honduran Congress to "swiftly" consider the restoration of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.