HONDURAS, November 17, 2009. The crisis unleashed in Honduras continues gaining tension as long as the November 29 elections, impugned by the country's vast sectors that term them a farce by putschists, get closer. The de facto government, traditional parties, business people and armed forces, supported by the United States, are remaining an intensive drive to hold elections. The National Front against the Coup d'Etat stated in its two last rallies that it will ignore the electoral process and continue fighting for the restitution of constitutional order and President Manuel Zelaya. The Front's general coordinator Juan Barahona said that the resistance will continue until achieving a call for a national constituent, democratic and popular assembly. Barahona also stressed that Zelaya, against the June 28 military coup, ratified in a letter addressed three days ago to US President Barack Obama that he will defense his country's democratic institutionality. The statesman slammed Obama his support to putschists of seeking a solution to crisis through the November 29 polls. They will be a treason to the continent's democratic peoples. The de facto government announced some reprisals against those who try to boycott vote and announced an extensive deployment of the army's troops, police, armed forces' reservists before elections.(Cubaminrex- PL)
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