29 November, 2009

Weary of Political Crisis, Honduras Holds Election
New York Times
By ELISABETH MALKIN TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Rony Gómez will stay home when Hondurans go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president, five months after …
www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/world/americas/29honduras.html

Nicaragua, El Salvador close borders with Honduras
Xinhua
28 (Xinhua) — Nicaragua and El Salvador closed on Saturday their customs posts on the Honduras border and will open them again on Monday to avoid any …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/29/content_12557398.htm

Honduran economy faces challenges
Aljazeera.net
Election polls are due to open in Honduras, but Manuel Zelaya, Honduras' deposed leader, has repeatedly called for a boycott of the vote on Sunday.…
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/
2009/11/2009112819441353946.html

Minister of State Kent Calls for Peaceful Elections in Honduras
Canada Views
“Once the elections have taken place, I urge all parties in Honduras to focus anew on the full implementation of the Tegucigalpa-San José Accord to enable …
www.canadaviews.ca/2009/11/27/minister-
of-state-kent-calls-for-peaceful-elections-in-honduras/

Surveys: Honduran Conservative is Favorite in Sunday's Presidential Election
Voice of America
Opinion polls in Honduras show conservative candidate Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo has a clear lead ahead of Sunday's controversial presidential election. …
www1.voanews.com/english/news/americas/Surveys-Honduran-
Conservative-is-Favorite-in-Sundays-Presidential-Election-2009
-11-28-77338607.html

Honduras: an election made in Washington
21st Century Socialism
But what is less well known, at least outside Honduras, is that the terms of this election were decided in a back-room deal between the hard right of the US …
21stcenturysocialism.com/article/hond
uras_an_election_made_in_washington_01936.html

Summit may help settle Latin American spats
Washington Post
Relations between Venezuela and its neighbor Colombia, and between Honduras and Brazil, have soured in recent months. “Our relationships have always had …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2009/11/28/AR2009112800763.html

Former Potter's House student preparing to open Christian school in Honduras …
MLive.com
By Erin Albanese | The Grand Rapids Press Courtesy PhotoA former Potter's House student, Emily Romero, center, worked as an intern in Honduras with the …
www.mlive.com/living/grand-rapids/index.
ssf/2009/11/former_potters_house_student_p.html

Children's Rescue Mission celebrates 10 years of aide to Honduras
The Hour
By LAUREN MYLO Norwalk resident Miguel Giron tried to cross the border from Honduras four times in the 1980s so he could come to America, …
www.thehour.com/story/478677

Honduras aid trip in doubt
BurlingtonFreePress.com
Volunteers of the Vermont Hands to Honduras-Tela program participate in a weekly Spanish class in Essex Junction earlier this month. …
www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20091128/NEWS02/91128001

Fixing Honduras – The Daily Beast
By Marco Vicenzino
The elections on Sunday represent the best chance yet to help spur the central American nation's march to true democracy. Marco Vencenzino reports.
www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-
stories/2009-11-28/fixing-honduras/

HONDURANS in WASHINGTON to Protest Honduras Election, Sunday, 11 …
By magbana
WASHINGTON, DC, November 27, 2009 – In the run-up to the presidential, congressional, and mayoral elections to be held in Honduras in the midst of the worst political crisis to hit Honduras and Central America in more than two decades, …
hondurasoye.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/hondur
ans-in-washington-to-protest-honduras-election-sunday-1129/

Honduras 'Election' “ Ten Percent
By RickB
Far from “starting from zero”, as President Obama suggested, the situation in Honduras on Monday will stay precisely where it is– with added sources of conflict provided by what will without a doubt be disputes about the Sunday vote. …
tenpercent.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/honduras-election/

Politics Plus: Obama Failing on Honduras
By TomCat
The ouster of Manuel Zelaya, the Honduran populist president, five months ago propelled the deeply impoverished country onto President Obama's packed agenda. The question now is whether his administration's support for the presidential …
politicsplus.blogspot.com/2009/11/obama-failing-on-honduras.html

Truthdig – Ear to the Ground – Conservative Leads As Honduras Vote …
By editor@truthdig.com
2009/11/28 – Honduras' controversial election for president is Sunday, and conservative candidate “Pepe” Lobo has a clear lead in the most recent opinion polls. The contest, which follows the coup d'etat of actual-president Manuel …
www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/
conservative_leads_as_honduras_vote_nears_20091128/

28 November, 2009

Costa Rica: Honduras vote must be backed if fair
The Associated Press
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Costa Rica promised Friday to restore ties with Honduras if its presidential elections are clean, joining other nations in rejecting …
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/
ALeqM5jAkMGKIUDg_ngUiZboxQbYj5_DPwD9C85RM06

In retrospect, calling in a bomb threat probably wasn't the best idea
Dallas Morning News
It was an American Airlines flight headed toward Honduras. Scheduled to take off from Miami International Airport at 10:20 am, the airplane was grounded …
aviationblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009
/11/in-retrospect-calling-in-a-bom.html

The impossible dream, again
Washington Times
Thus I am an American by birth who spent my life as an American diplomat serving in many countries, including Portugal, Honduras, and Panama where I was the …
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/
nov/30/the-impossible-dream-again/

Instability 'threatens development' in Honduras
OneWorld.net
Ongoing political instability threatens to seriously undermine long-term development gains in Honduras, one of Central America's poorest nations,…
uk.oneworld.net/article/view/164121/1/5795

PENPIX: Presidential hopefuls aim to lead coup-hit Honduras
Reuters
Zelaya, who snuck back into Honduras in September and took refuge in the Brazilian embassy, says the election is illegitimate and the Organization of …
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5AP40C20091126

Honduran vote to face legitimacy test
CNN International
A Honduran soldier stands guard Friday in Tegucigalpa near graffiti urging a boycott of this weekend's election. (CNN) — Hondurans will answer two…
edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/27/honduras.election/

Honduras coup: troops deployed to oversee election
guardian.co.uk
Honduran soldiers stand guard as supporters of ousted president Manuel Zelaya protest outside the national congress in Tegucigalpa yesterday. …
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/
27/honduras-election-troops-deployed-zelaya

History of US intervention in Honduras
guardian.co.uk
Nicaraguan Contra insurgents training in Honduras in 1989. The rightwing rebels were backed by Ronald Reagan's United States. …
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/27/us-honduras-coup

U.S. risks isolation over Honduras election: Brazil
Reuters
Honduras will on November 29 hold elections which de facto leader Roberto Micheletti hopes will end a political crisis that began when soldiers exiled …
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5AQ2HK20091127

Bernardez's high hopes for Honduras
Fifa.com
For Honduras stalwart Victor Bernardez, there was no mystery why his side were able to secure qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™. …
www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=1140894.html

Honduras, Colombia, Cuba: US Sticking with Monroe Doctrine …
By magbana
While the U.S. government is amplifying its hostile interventions in the south, André Pesant recalled the ideological origins of U.S. foreign policy in a radio episode entitled Honduras, Colombia, Cuba – the United States is Pursuing …
hondurasoye.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/honduras-colombia-
cuba-us-sticking-with-monroe-doctrine-interview-with-arnold-august/

Christopher Sabatini: Sunday's Elections Left As Risky Option in …
By Christopher Sabatini
Fingers are crossed throughout the Americas for a speedy conclusion to the Honduran crisis. But Sunday's elections may not present the exit we all hope for.
www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-sabatini
/sundays-elections-left-as_b_372081.html

SOCIALIST UNITY “DON'T RECOGNISE HONDURAS'S FLAWED ELECTION
By Andy Newman
The military coup that overthrew elected president Manual Zelaya and seized power in Honduras in June is now seeking to legitimise its illegal government through the international recognition of elections on 29 November. …
www.socialistunity.com/?p=4931

Honduras to vote for new president amid coup crisis | ABS-CBN News …
By Reuters
TEGUCIGALPA – Honduras chooses a new president on Sunday in an election that may defuse a crisis caused by a coup against President Manuel Zelaya, but the vote is splitting Washington and Latin America. …
abs-cbnnews.com/world/11/26/09/hon
duras-vote-new-president-amid-coup-crisis

Honduras election is a sham – don't legitimise it | Simon Fletcher
By simon
Honduras first needs to be restored to normality so that a democratic election can take place, not a charade. No fair or democratic election can take place in the circumstances that prevail in Honduras at present.
www.simonfletcher.info/honduras-guardian/