The Honduras Elections: Let the Voters Speak

Ray Walser / November 27, 2009

On November 29 the people of Honduras will vote for a new president and legislature to govern their country over the next four years. The elections are now the only fair and democratic way to heal the crisis begun well before the June 28th removal of President Manuel Zelaya.

Former president Zelaya, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, the Organization of American States, and many liberals in the U.S. are banking on a low, indifferent turnout. They want to prove that a climate of repression, fear, and the lack of political options is keeping Hondurans away from the polls. Ironically, these “friends of democracy” are anxious to negate the vote of Hondurans in their effort to prove the only solution to the crisis is the restoration of Manuel Zelaya to presidential power. (more…)