Day 142 of HONDURAS COUP RESISTANCE – “ELECTION” TENSION MOUNTS ON THE STREETS OF TEGUCIGALPA

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[Judi Lynn]

1. So now they've thrown the husband, Edwin, who, as we have learned,

was working in the U.S. and returned to Honduras when he learned of the filthy coup, and started protesting daily in the streets with his beloved wife, Wendy. All the people who traveled through the streets and protested with them were very aware of Edwin who rode his motorcycle to the protests, with his young wife, Wendy, riding behind him. She's been killed.

Now they've thrown her husband in jail, claiming he was seen writing things on walls. Yeah, right. Everyone's going to believe that.

There's no word bad enough to use against these doughy, pasty, flabby, slimy, racist bastards who view themselves as chosen by God to be privileged and to rule over the poor of Honduras, and do this any way possible.

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Democracy is only meant for the elites. Everyone else is simply up #### creek.

Signed,

Pompous, rigid, malicious, murderous, greedy, ugly old farts.

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[Judi Lynn]

2. Honduras' crisis brings South Florida election showdown

Posted on Monday, 11.16.09
Honduras' crisis brings South Florida election showdown

Divisions over Honduras' political future are evident not only in the Central American country but also in South Florida as legal issues arise over elections.

BY TRENTON DANIEL
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Editor's Note: This story is part of an occasional series appearing in The Miami Herald leading up to Honduras' Nov. 29 national elections.

Honduras' chief diplomat in Miami flips to page 117 of his nation's election manual and insists that his fellow countrymen living here must vote for their new president at the consulate in South Florida.

In Tegucigalpa, more than 900 miles away, government officials say Fernando Agurcia is wrong. His consulate no longer has the authority to organize elections outside the country.

``Right now, we're on standby,'' Agurcia said. ``Not knowing what is going to happen has been very stressful.''

Hondurans may go to the polls on Nov. 29 with hopes of resolving the 20-week-old presidential crisis that was triggered by President Manuel Zelaya's sudden ouster in a military coup.

Yet, for the half-million Honduran citizens living in the United States, 61,000 of them in South Florida, a new crisis is brewing over where they will vote, and how.

That's because Agurcia was appointed by Zelaya. A framed photo of the toppled populist hung prominently in the consul general's West Miami-Dade office where he defended his authority to administer the Nov. 29 balloting.

But the interim government of Roberto Micheletti, shunned by the Obama administration and Organization of American States, ordered Zelaya's diplomats out. The U.S. State Department told him to stay.

The showdown in South Florida may not be a tipping point on the magnitude of the 2000 Bush-Gore elections that hung on dimpled chads and butterfly ballots.

Still, it is rattling nerves in particular here because the more outspoken Hondurans support Micheletti and his coup -- and don't want to vote in a process administered by a Zelaya ally.

More:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1335534.html