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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Celso Castro [mailto:</span></font><st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>celcas2000@gmail.com</span></font></st1:PersonName><span
class=GramE><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Tahoma'>] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent</span></b></span></font></span><b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:
bold'>:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><st1:date Month="11" Day="18" Year="2009"><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Wednesday,
November 18, 2009</span></font></st1:date><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><st1:time Hour="16"
Minute="21"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Tahoma'>4:21 PM</span></font></st1:time><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b>
hondurasusaresistencia@yahoo.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> </span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Honduras</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>: more
candidates join election boycott</span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="http://www.ww4report.com/node/7958">http://www.ww4report.com/node/7958</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h1><st1:country-region><st1:place><b><font size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:24.0pt'>Honduras</span></font></b></st1:place></st1:country-region>:
more candidates join election boycott<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=submitted><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Submitted by WW4 Report on Tue, </span></font></span><st1:date
Month="11" Day="17" Year="2009"><span class=submitted>11/17/2009</span></st1:date><span
class=submitted> - </span><st1:time Hour="19" Minute="3"><span class=submitted>19:03</span></st1:time><span
class=submitted>.</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In a
press conference in </span></font><st1:place><st1:City>Managua</st1:City>, <st1:country-region>Nicaragua</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
on Nov. 13, the mayor of <st1:place><st1:City>San Pedro Sula</st1:City>, <st1:country-region>Honduras</st1:country-region></st1:place>'
second largest city, confirmed that he was no longer running for another term
in general elections scheduled for Nov. 29. "The people don't believe in
this process, because these are elections where absolutely nothing is going to
get elected," Mayor <strong><b><font face="Times New Roman">Rodolfo
Padilla Sunceri</font></b></strong> said. A member of the center-right Liberal
Party (PL), Padilla joined a growing number of candidates who have withdrawn
from the race in order to protest the control of the process by a <em><i><font
face="Times New Roman">de facto</font></i></em> government put in place after a
military coup removed President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales from office on June
28. Padilla was the frontrunner in polls taken before the coup. The Nov. 29
general elections are intended to elect the president, the 128 members of the
National Congress, 20 deputies to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN),
and members of the country's municipal governments.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Independent
presidential candidate <a
href="http://www.ww4report.com/node/7934#comment-317814" target="_new">Carlos
H. Reyes</a> officially withdrew from the race on Nov. 9. A former unionist
with strong links to the grassroots movement against the coup, Reyes was third
in a field of six candidates, according to polls. The frontrunner is <a
href="http://ww4report.com/node/7735" target="_new">Porfirio "Pepe"
Lobo</a> of the right-wing National Party (PN); Liberal candidate Elvin Santos
trails him by 15-20%, according to political analyst Gustavo Irías. </span></font><st1:City><st1:place>Santos</st1:place></st1:City>
is badly damaged by a split in the PL between supporters of President Zelaya
and supporters of de facto president Roberto Micheletti Bain; both are members
of the party.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
mayoral candidates boycotting the election include Heber Iván Gómez Mendoza, PL
candidate in Morolica, Choluteca department; Luis Alberto Posadas Alfar, an
independent candidate in Danlí, El Paraíso; and Gladys Gloria Ebanks Campell,
an independent candidate on Roatán island, Islas de la Bahía department. The
small leftist Democratic Unification (UD) is badly split, with presidential
candidate César Ham planning to continue in the race while many other candidates
want to withdraw; the party will lose its place on the ballot and government
matching funds if too many candidates drop out. The Party of Innovation and
Social Democratic Unity (PINU) is also split. The leadership supports the coup,
but many candidates for Congress oppose it and may withdraw, so that this party
too could lose its ballot position. (EFE, Nov. 13; Comun-Noticias, Nov. 13 via </span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place>Honduras</st1:place></st1:country-region>
Laboral; La <st1:place><st1:City>Jornada</st1:City>, <st1:country-region>Mexico</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
Nov. 14)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Who
is behind explosive attacks?</span></font></b></strong><br>
During the night of Nov. 12 an explosive device was <a
href="http://ww4report.com/node/7922#comment-317828" target="_new">detonated</a>
in a <st1:City><st1:place>Tegucigalpa</st1:place></st1:City> residential
neighborhood without causing any damage or injuries. The police and the media
originally said an airplane flew over the city and dropped a bomb on a location
where ballots were being stored for the Nov. 29 elections, even though no
damage was reported there. The airplane turned out to be a commercial flight
from <st1:country-region><st1:place>Guatemala</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Later an RPG-1 grenade-launching device was discovered in the area, and the
military announced that unidentified persons had attempted to hit the
storehouse but had overshot it. "We have preliminary information about
some actions which people who are from the left are carrying out," Armed
Forces head Gen. Romeo Vásquez Velásquez said at a Nov. 13 press conference.
"We know where these artifacts come from," said Gen. Miguel Ángel
García Padgett, the army's commander. "[T]hey cross over the border and
are artifacts of Russian or Chinese origin, and they are precisely the ones
used by people of a leftist tendency."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Unionist
Juan Barahona, a coordinator of the National Front of Resistance Against the
Coup d'Etat, insisted that the opposition's strategy was a nonviolent boycott
of the elections. "The people don't have the ability to do these things
[bombings]. Here the only ones who have this ability are the police and the
Armed Forces." He charged that the military had used similar tactics in
its campaign against the left in the 1980s. "They are the ones responsible;
they're generating an environment so that later they can generate the
repression they've got planned and can consolidate the coup," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Front
has been focused on printing up and distributing handbills and posters calling
on people to boycott the voting. (EFE, Nov. 13; LJ, Nov. 14; Adital, </span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place>Brazil</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
Nov. 13)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>From <a
href="http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/2009/11/wnu-1012-actions-in-mexico-protest.html"
target="_new">Weekly News Update on the Americas</a>, Nov. 17<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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