Why wouldn't they? They backed the coup!
"Honduras sets vote, but rifts continue; Critics oppose validating coup" by Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times | November 29, 2009
MEXICO CITY - The de facto rulers of Honduras will observe more than elections today: They staged the first military-backed coup in Central America in 16 years - and got away with it.
Months of international effort failed to reinstate President Manuel Zelaya, ousted June 28 and deported to Costa Rica. Instead, the most powerful outside mediator, the United States, agreed to recognize the outcome of today’s vote for a new president. Several other countries will not, saying that a “free and fair’’ vote cannot be held under the watch of a de facto regime. Many in Honduras and elsewhere hope the choosing of a new leader will allow the slate to be cleaned and Honduras to emerge from the diplomatic and political isolation.... as well as allowing a coup to stand.
When the AmeriKan MSM usues the term "many" or "some" in a situation like this it is promoting ITS WISHES!!!
Zelaya - who sneaked back into the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, on Sept. 21 and has been sheltered in the Brazilian embassy since - on Friday called on supporters to boycott the “spurious electoral process.’’ Major international election-monitoring groups refused to send observers. Several human rights organizations on Friday denounced a “climate of terror’’ after weeks in which de facto authorities have cracked down on opposition media and arrested scores of opponents.
Yeah, THAT IS WHY Honduras has been NEARLY INVISIBLE in my coup-supporting and concealing paper the last MONTH or so!!!!
A handful of low-charge explosives have detonated in recent days at the Supreme Court and pro-coup businesses.
Can you SAY FALSE FLAG, readers?!
In another setback for Zelaya, Costa Rican’s president, Oscar Arias, who unsuccessfully attempted to negotiate a settlement to the Honduran crisis, said he would recognize the results of the election. To do otherwise, he told CNN’s Spanish-language service, would be to further punish the Honduran people.
Well, LET'S ASK THEM about that (see below)!!!
Roberto Micheletti, the man who replaced Zelaya in the coup but is not on the ballot, promised that “peace and tranquility will prevail’’ in Honduras for the vote. Leo Valladares, a former human rights ombudsman and law professor who did not support the coup, said the elections may be a “first step’’ out of the crisis. But he said the next president must confront the underlying troubles that have polarized Honduras, which is run by a small, stubborn conservative elite.
It is the SAME in EVERY NATION, isn't it?
One leftist political party allied with Zelaya rejected his call for a boycott and decided to participate in the election, saying it was better to attempt to effect change within the system than from the margins....
Translation: Zelaya has been abandoned.
My question to the lefties is, what if the SYSTEM ITSELF is the ROT?!
Initially, the Obama administration, along with most of the international community, strongly condemned the coup and demanded Zelaya be reinstated. As the crisis dragged on, however, the United States seemed to waver....
Actually, I NO LONGER CARE for the PUBLIC HORSE S*** that comes out of the mouths of U.S. government officials and their mouthpiece media s***s.
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Why I get THREE DIFFERENT REWRITES, 'er, is beyond me!
"Conservative leads post-coup Honduran election" by Alexandra Olson, Associated Press Writer | November 29, 2009
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- Hondurans on Sunday elected a new president whose first challenge will be defending his legitimacy to the world and ending a crisis over a June coup that has isolated one of Latin America's poorest countries.
Porfirio Lobo and Elvin Santos, two prosperous businessmen from the political old guard, are the front-runners.... The United States, hoping to resolve its first major policy test in Latin America, is defending the election while leftist governments allege it whitewashes Central America's first coup in 20 years.
First test and Obama FAILS!
Washington's support matters most in Honduras, which sends more than 60 percent of its exports to the United States, from bananas to Fruit-of-the-Loom underwear, and relies heavily on money sent home from the 1 million Hondurans who live in the U.S.
Why don't we just make it a state then?
President Barack Obama's government suspended development aid and anti-narcotic cooperation with Honduras over the coup. But U.S. diplomats say Hondurans have the right to choose their next leader in regular elections that were scheduled well before President Manuel Zelaya's ouster....
Blah, blah, blah, blah!
Zelaya, the left-leaning president ousted in a June 28 coup, said that overwhelming abstention would discredit the election and the U.S. would regret its stance.
It's already been discredited.
"The United States made a mistake," Zelaya said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from the Brazilian Embassy where he took refuge since sneaking back into the country from his forced exile. "If they are democrats in their country, they should be democrats in Latin America."
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Police fired tear gas at several hundred pro-Zelaya protesters in the northern city of San Pedro Sula, and at least one person was injured and required stitches on his head. Some protesters sat down as police approached, and other later hurled rocks back at police. Police spokesman Orlin Cerrato said protests are banned on election day.
Yeah, and the U.S. is DEFENDING SUCH ACTIONS!!
Btw, that rock-throwing bunch? AGENT PROVOCATEURS to make the GOOD PEOPLE of HONDURAS' PROTEST look bad!
Zelaya has support among many poor Hondurans who believed in his promises to shake-up a political system dominated by two political parties with few ideological differences and influenced by a few wealthy families.
Mauro Romero, 59, had no intention of setting foot in a polling station. "Zelaya is the president that we elected. We don't want the same dinosaurs in power, people who have been there for 30 years, only getting fat," said Romero, sitting on the steps of the Tegucigalpa's peach-colored 18th century cathedral, now covered in graffiti saying "No to the coup!"
But many Hondurans simply want to end a crisis that has eroded an already stagnant economy. Tourists have disappeared from Mayan ruins and rain forests, multilateral lending agencies have blocked the country's access to credit.
In other words, OUR PEOPLE, you know, the ones the American media talks to, just want it to be over!
Turnout was higher in affluent neighborhoods where resentment against Zelaya runs highest....
Honestly, who gives a s*** about another rigged -- and illegal -- election?
Not me!
Human rights activists accuse the interim government harassing groups promoting abstention. On Saturday, about 50 masked soldiers and police raided the offices of Red Comal, a farm aid group in the northern town of Siguatepeque that has opposed the coup, said Miguel Alonso, the program director. He said police seized computers and documents....
Cerrato said the security forces were acting on a court order as part investigations into homemade bomb attacks that have exploded nearly every day in Honduras....
PFFFFTT!
Time for the updates.
"Honduras hopes to move past coup with election" by Alexandra Olson, Associated Press Writer | November 30, 2009
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras --Honduras' newly elected President Porfirio Lobo already faces an international crisis even before taking office: many countries of the hemisphere refuse to recognize his government, chosen in the shadow of a coup.
Election officials said Monday that that the conservative rancher had a strong lead in Sunday's presidential contest and his rival conceded defeat. Election organizers also said that more than 60 percent of registered voters cast ballots -- an increase from the last election -- indicating that most Hondurans rejected calls by toppled President Manuel Zelaya to boycott the vote.
The same lying guys that seized power said that, huh?
The country's interim leaders hoped a strong turnout would prove the vote's legitimacy and free this poor Central American nation from the international isolation that followed the June 28 ouster of Zelaya.
No self-serving self-interest there, huh?
Early signals on their chances were mixed. The United States has said that it will recognize a free and fair vote, but it had made no comment following the election....
Zelaya was already disputing the official numbers. He said his information from polling places indicated two-thirds of voters stayed home, which he insisted meant the election had no legitimacy. The debate over whether Honduras should hold the election without first restoring Zelaya to his office overshadowed the campaign....
Colombia's conservative President Alvaro Uribe joined a list of countries that are supporting the next Honduran government. "Colombia recognizes the next government," Uribe told reporters Monday during the Ibero-American summit in Portugal. "A democratic process has taken place in Honduras with high participation, without fraud."
Criminals code-of-honor, Uribe?
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Yeah, the POLICE REPRESSION was missing from that one!
Let's try the next "update."
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Porfirio Lobo, leader of the opposition National Party and a rancher, was elected president of Honduras yesterday as voters sought to restore legitimacy to their national government five months after a military-backed coup ousted President Manuel Zelaya....
OMG, that is SUCH CRAP! TOTALLY TWISTED it around!!!!
Perhaps more importantly, election officials said more than 60 percent of registered voters cast ballots - a victory for interim leaders who hoped a large turnout would bolster the vote’s legitimacy. The international community and the Honduran public have been divided over whether the elections should be recognized after the coup....
This is s***, readers! This is OUTRIGHT LYING by the LA Times!!!!
It was difficult to determine turnout. Army patrols were seen in some poorer neighborhoods, where support for Zelaya is strongest. The only pro-Zelaya candidate pulled out of the race, leaving two conservative factions with close ties to the military as the front-runners.
But it was a LEGITIMATE ELECTION, blah, blah, blah, blah!
Despite the political and diplomatic chaos that has engulfed Honduras, yesterday’s vote was relatively peaceful. In San Pedro Sula, police fired tear gas and water cannon at several hundred pro-Zelaya demonstrators, injuring and detaining an undetermined number of people, witnesses said.
BUT it was "relatively" peaceful!
Un-flipping-f***ing-real!!
What s*** journalism!
The international community, which failed in its efforts to reverse the first coup in Central America in 16 years, is split over whether to recognize the results of the vote - with the United States at odds with much of Latin America....
Yeah, we are pretty much alone, isolated even!
After initially condemning the coup, the United States decided to support elections with the hope that the country could move on....
Just like they SUPPORTED the COUP!!!!
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