Memo: Honduras State Employees Forced to Attend Santos Campaign Rally

[Downwinder]

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3632/memo-honduras-state-employees-forced-attend-santos-campaign-rally

[Peace Patriot]

1. Lots of important news at this site, as usual...

Here's the subject line item--from one of the NarcoNews reporters in Honduras:

"This just in from Tamar Sharabi, reporting from Honduran territory:

"Evidence has surfaced that state employees were forced to attend the closing campaign ceremony of Elvin Santos, the ex-Vice President under Zelaya. In the letter, addressed to all department heads of the office of Civil Service, general director Marco Tulio Flores wrote, 'I instruct all employees that are fulfilling their duties, without any exception, to attend the closing campaign of the Liberal Party that will take place Sunday November 22 at 9:30am. In a booth at the entrance to the coliseum Xiomara Orellana will take attendance of all personnel of this institution.'"

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3632/memo-honduras-state-employees-forced-attend-santos-campaign-rally

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The US human rights observers will hold a press conference today, 3:00 pm (4:00 pm EST), in front of the US embassy in Tegucigalpa, at which they will report, "sistematic abuse of human rights as evidenced by raids, detentions, threats, physical abuse, indimidation and persecution on the part of state security agents," throughout Honduras during the voting.

[EFerrari]

2. Telesur reports that in San Pedro Sula, groups of people in white tee shirts

have been going house to house to ask people if they have voted. If someone responds in the negative, they are insulted and threatened with the authorities.