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WNU #1011: Honduran Resistance Rejects “Afghanistan-Style” Elections
“It’s not just about not going to vote,” indigenous leader Salvador Zúñiga said on Nov. 6. “The same way they took away our ballot box on June 28, we have to take theirs away from them... From now on, it’s going to be forbidden for politicians to come into our neighborhoods and communities, and we’re going to forbid them to set up the voting places.”
Weekly News Update on the Americas
Issue #1011, November 8, 2009
1. Honduras: Resistance Rejects “Afghanistan-Style” Elections
2. Honduras: US and Latin America Split Over Elections
3. In Other News: Mexico, Cuba, Haiti
4. Links to alternative sources on: Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Central America, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Cuba, Biodiversity, Indigenous, Economy, Media
ISSN#: 1084-922X. Weekly News Update on the Americas covers news from Latin America and the Caribbean, compiled and written from a progressive perspective. It has been published weekly by the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York since 1990. For a subscription, write to weeklynewsupdate [at] gmail.com . It is archived at http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/
*1. Honduras: Resistance Rejects “Afghanistan-Style” Elections
As of the evening of Nov. 7 talks in Tegucigalpa between representatives of Honduran president José Manuel Zelaya Rosales and de facto president Roberto Micheletti Bain had failed to revive the Tegucigalpa/San José Accord, an agreement the two sides signed on Oct. 30, a little more than one week earlier. Members of a Verification Commission established by the agreement had tried to salvage the accord by having the two sides meet again on Nov. 7.
Zelaya’s representatives apparently signed the Oct. 30 agreement on the understanding that the National Congress would return Zelaya to the presidency--from which he was removed by a June 28 military coup backed by the Congress and Supreme Court--and that he would then form a multi-party Government of Unity and National Reconciliation. The agreement stipulated that the new government would be in place by the end of Nov. 5 [see Update #1010]. But the Congress, which is in recess until general elections scheduled for Nov. 29, failed to reconvene, and Micheletti proceeded to name a multi-party cabinet which Zelaya refused to recognize. Micheletti’s new cabinet had the same ministers as the old de facto government in key ministries: foreign relations, finance, agriculture, defense, security and the presidency. (Honduras Coup 2009 blog 11/8/09; El Día (Spain) 11/8/09 from EFE; La Jornada (Mexico) 11/7/09 from correspondent) [...]
Read the full Update:
http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/2009/11/wnu-1011-honduran-resistance-rejects.html
Issue #1011, November 8, 2009
1. Honduras: Resistance Rejects “Afghanistan-Style” Elections
2. Honduras: US and Latin America Split Over Elections
3. In Other News: Mexico, Cuba, Haiti
4. Links to alternative sources on: Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Central America, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Cuba, Biodiversity, Indigenous, Economy, Media
ISSN#: 1084-922X. Weekly News Update on the Americas covers news from Latin America and the Caribbean, compiled and written from a progressive perspective. It has been published weekly by the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York since 1990. For a subscription, write to weeklynewsupdate [at] gmail.com . It is archived at http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/
*1. Honduras: Resistance Rejects “Afghanistan-Style” Elections
As of the evening of Nov. 7 talks in Tegucigalpa between representatives of Honduran president José Manuel Zelaya Rosales and de facto president Roberto Micheletti Bain had failed to revive the Tegucigalpa/San José Accord, an agreement the two sides signed on Oct. 30, a little more than one week earlier. Members of a Verification Commission established by the agreement had tried to salvage the accord by having the two sides meet again on Nov. 7.
Zelaya’s representatives apparently signed the Oct. 30 agreement on the understanding that the National Congress would return Zelaya to the presidency--from which he was removed by a June 28 military coup backed by the Congress and Supreme Court--and that he would then form a multi-party Government of Unity and National Reconciliation. The agreement stipulated that the new government would be in place by the end of Nov. 5 [see Update #1010]. But the Congress, which is in recess until general elections scheduled for Nov. 29, failed to reconvene, and Micheletti proceeded to name a multi-party cabinet which Zelaya refused to recognize. Micheletti’s new cabinet had the same ministers as the old de facto government in key ministries: foreign relations, finance, agriculture, defense, security and the presidency. (Honduras Coup 2009 blog 11/8/09; El Día (Spain) 11/8/09 from EFE; La Jornada (Mexico) 11/7/09 from correspondent) [...]
Read the full Update:
http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/2009/11/wnu-1011-honduran-resistance-rejects.html
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