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Honduras: No One’s Idea of an Electoral Fiesta

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by Lisa Haugaard on November 24, 2009
“Vote? Me? No way? For what?”  said the young man, almost spitting out the words. “What is there to vote for in this election?”

All over Honduras, youth “in resistance,” women in resistance, artists in resistance, lawyers in resistance, well-dressed and blackberried political party leaders in resistance, campesinos in resistance, are saying no to these November 29th elections. While the word “resistance” may conjure up images of masked guerrillas, this image is totally misleading. As I could see in a trip this week to Tegucigalpa, it is, so far, in general an extraordinarily peaceful, civic resistance.

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Honduras: Things Fall Apart

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by Lisa Haugaard and Suzette Diaz on November 18, 2009
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“Ten years from now, perhaps we will not be able to say we survived the brutality of these times."

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by Vanessa Kritzer on November 12, 2009
Bertha Oliva speaks at the briefing.

The international community initially celebrated an agreement negotiated  in Honduras, on October 28th, between coup regime leader Roberto Micheletti and deposed President Manuel Zelaya, which could have put an end to the crisis. But, less than a week later, the accord started crumbling apart.

On November 5th, 2009, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) sponsored a briefing of civil society leaders and activists on Capitol Hill to talk about the human rights violations that have been occurring in Honduras since the coup and give their vision for the future.  The leaders’ visits were coordinated by the Quixote Center and Just Associates, and LAWGEF pitched in to help. The following quotes were taken from that briefing.

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"Ten years from now, perhaps we will not be able to say we survived the brutality of these times."

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by Suzette Diaz on November 12, 2009
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Movement in Honduras, but the Future’s Still Uncertain

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by Suzette Diaz and Vanessa Kritzer on November 04, 2009

After months of a virtual standstill in Honduras between democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya and regime leader Roberto Micheletti, we might be seeing the end of what one writer called, “The Little Coup That Couldn’t.” On October 29th, Honduras’ defacto leader Roberto Micheletti agreed to step down, allowing the Honduran Congress to decide whether President Zelaya would be returned to power. But, the fate of democracy in Honduras still remains to be seen.

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