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Time is running out. On November 29th, the Honduran military and business junta that illegally seized power on June 28th and that has since violently repressed the country’s people and press will hold “elections” effectively closing all possibility for a reversal of the coup d’ etat that ousted democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya on June 28, 2009.
( all text in this entry is from http://www.porlademocracia.org/actividades.html ,
Hondurans for Democracy, the organizers of the protest )
The announcement in late October of an agreement between President Zelaya and the coup regime, although extremely flawed, gave to many the hope that a semblance of the democratic process would be restored in Honduras after all. However, the coup regime has reneged on its obligations under the accord by refusing to allow President Zelaya to be reinstated prior to the elections. The coup regime is attempting to launder the coup d’etat with martial law elections that the opposition cannot meaningfully contest.
 
President Zelaya, the National Front Against the Coup, and a broad-based popular movement in Honduras have called for a boycott of the elections. Twenty-three Latin American nations are echoing the cry of the Honduran people and have expressed that they will refuse to recognize the coup-regime elections. These nations have opted to instead recognize the widespread violations of human rights committed by the cup regime. The U.S. State Department representatives continue to deny having heard any reports of human rights abuses.
In a recent and shocking policy shift, the U.S. plans to almost unilaterally recognize these elections as legitimate. While the State Department claims the elections represent a way for Honduras to “move forward” out of the crisis, those who know the history of Latin America know that without justice and accountability, Honduras is in danger of repeating the repression and suffering of dirty wars throughout Latin America’s history.
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