Re: Hondouras
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 3:31 pm
Honduras Rejects OAS Calls for New Elections
A military police removes a burning tire from a barricade settled by opposition supporters during a protest, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras December 18, 2017. | Photo: Reuters
Published 18 December 2017
Honduran officials are rejecting calls for new elections in spite of widespread fraud allegations and mass protests.
After the Organization of American States called for new elections in Honduras, a senior government official in the Honduran government flatly rejected the call.
After the Honduran electoral authorities announced on Sunday that the pro-U.S. right-wing incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez had won the election in spite of widespread allegations of irregularities and mass street protests, the OAS, who had remained largely silent on the issue, said that the electoral process did not meet “democratic standards.”
While the OAS said they could not confirm if there was fraud or not, they called for a new round of elections to clear the ambiguity.
First Vice President Ricardo Alvarez responded sharply, saying that the call was in violation of Honduran sovereignty. “This is an autonomous and sovereign nation ... This is a nation that is not going to do what anybody from an international organization tells it to do.”
Honduras under President Orlando Hernandez had previously backed OAS interference in Venezuela's affairs earlier this year, during the organization's debates on opposition protests against President Nicolas Maduro.
Honduras has been rocked by protests calling for another electoral round following an electoral process ridden with fraud allegations and irregularities, which supporters of center-left candidate Salvador Nasralla say robbed them of the election.
Protesters have been met with heavy police repression, with several deaths and numerous injuries registered in recent weeks.
Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who was removed in a U.S.-backed coup in 2009, has been a key actor in both supporting Nasralla, and mobilizing protesters to continue street actions.
Various other international groups have issued calls against the right-wing leadership in Honduras and the alleged electoral fraud. Several U.S.-based human rights groups have called for the United States to revoke its military support to the country, and have condemned their country's role in overthrowing the center-left government of Zelaya.
“We have seen a massive increase in human rights violations, including threats and violence against journalists, Indigenous communities, and human rights defenders, since the 2009 coup,” Elise Roberts of Witness for Peace said.
“The assassination of Berta Caceres marked a new level of state violence and impunity, and the reported fraud in the Nov. 26 elections, and the violence and repression since, are a reinforcement of this illegitimate and violent government,” she continued, referring to the assassination of environmental leader Berta Caceres by state forces.
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/ ... -0022.html
Pretty fucking bad when the premier US lapdog says that the US policy being enacted is too corrupt.
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OAS Calls for Honduran Election to be Redone
Jorge Tuto Quiroga, chief of the Organization of American States, OAS, electoral observer mission, speaks during a news conference in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. | Photo: Reuters
Published 18 December 2017
“The people of Honduras deserve an electoral process that confers them democratic quality and guarantees,” said Luis Almagro
The Organization of American States, OAS, called for a new round of elections Sunday to guarantee voter rights are being respected and the procedure is being observed.
The Electoral Tribunal announced Sunday, the results of the recount, saying presidential candidate and incumbent leader, Juan Orlando Hernandez had won by 1.53 percentage points.
However, the OAS electoral observer mission said Sunday that though it could not confirm that the election had been “intentionally manipulated," the process was filled with suspicious inconsistencies.
“The people of Honduras deserve an electoral process that confers them democratic quality and guarantees,” said OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro in a statement. He added: “The electoral process that the tribunal concluded today clearly did not provide that."
The OAS said the only way for the Hondurans to be properly represented and for the victor to reflect the votes of the people would be to conduct a new election that adheres to the strictest measure of the law.
The inconsistencies of the TSE’s review process were discussed during a late press conference with the Electoral Observation Mission, EOM. According to the foreign delegation, the 82 experts had not ensured that the necessary precautions had not been taken to guarantee it’s integrity.
The OAS observers encouraged Hondurans to “remain calm and act responsibly," assuring that the issue will be resolved, denouncing the number of deaths and injuries which have resulted from a series of violent protests around the nation.
However, the European Union election observers have stated they did not encounter any irregularities in the process.
“After comparing a large random sample of voting records provided to us by the Alliance and the original records published on the tribunal’s website, the mission observed that the results presented practically no differences,” said Jose Antonio de Gabriel, the adjunct head of the EU’s mission.
For his part, the opposition candidate, Santiago Nasralla, expressed through a video posted on Facebook that "It is clear that there was fraud before, during and after the elections. (...) The President of the Republic at this moment is an impostor, and the Honduran people know it ".
Nasralla called for a resurgence of protests Monday. The leftist candidate arrives in the United States and plans to meet with Almagro as well as members of the State Department and human rights organizations to denounce the alleged fraudulent elections and solve the current political crisis.
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/ ... -0011.html
A military police removes a burning tire from a barricade settled by opposition supporters during a protest, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras December 18, 2017. | Photo: Reuters
Published 18 December 2017
Honduran officials are rejecting calls for new elections in spite of widespread fraud allegations and mass protests.
After the Organization of American States called for new elections in Honduras, a senior government official in the Honduran government flatly rejected the call.
After the Honduran electoral authorities announced on Sunday that the pro-U.S. right-wing incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez had won the election in spite of widespread allegations of irregularities and mass street protests, the OAS, who had remained largely silent on the issue, said that the electoral process did not meet “democratic standards.”
While the OAS said they could not confirm if there was fraud or not, they called for a new round of elections to clear the ambiguity.
First Vice President Ricardo Alvarez responded sharply, saying that the call was in violation of Honduran sovereignty. “This is an autonomous and sovereign nation ... This is a nation that is not going to do what anybody from an international organization tells it to do.”
Honduras under President Orlando Hernandez had previously backed OAS interference in Venezuela's affairs earlier this year, during the organization's debates on opposition protests against President Nicolas Maduro.
Honduras has been rocked by protests calling for another electoral round following an electoral process ridden with fraud allegations and irregularities, which supporters of center-left candidate Salvador Nasralla say robbed them of the election.
Protesters have been met with heavy police repression, with several deaths and numerous injuries registered in recent weeks.
Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who was removed in a U.S.-backed coup in 2009, has been a key actor in both supporting Nasralla, and mobilizing protesters to continue street actions.
Various other international groups have issued calls against the right-wing leadership in Honduras and the alleged electoral fraud. Several U.S.-based human rights groups have called for the United States to revoke its military support to the country, and have condemned their country's role in overthrowing the center-left government of Zelaya.
“We have seen a massive increase in human rights violations, including threats and violence against journalists, Indigenous communities, and human rights defenders, since the 2009 coup,” Elise Roberts of Witness for Peace said.
“The assassination of Berta Caceres marked a new level of state violence and impunity, and the reported fraud in the Nov. 26 elections, and the violence and repression since, are a reinforcement of this illegitimate and violent government,” she continued, referring to the assassination of environmental leader Berta Caceres by state forces.
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/ ... -0022.html
Pretty fucking bad when the premier US lapdog says that the US policy being enacted is too corrupt.
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OAS Calls for Honduran Election to be Redone
Jorge Tuto Quiroga, chief of the Organization of American States, OAS, electoral observer mission, speaks during a news conference in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. | Photo: Reuters
Published 18 December 2017
“The people of Honduras deserve an electoral process that confers them democratic quality and guarantees,” said Luis Almagro
The Organization of American States, OAS, called for a new round of elections Sunday to guarantee voter rights are being respected and the procedure is being observed.
The Electoral Tribunal announced Sunday, the results of the recount, saying presidential candidate and incumbent leader, Juan Orlando Hernandez had won by 1.53 percentage points.
However, the OAS electoral observer mission said Sunday that though it could not confirm that the election had been “intentionally manipulated," the process was filled with suspicious inconsistencies.
“The people of Honduras deserve an electoral process that confers them democratic quality and guarantees,” said OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro in a statement. He added: “The electoral process that the tribunal concluded today clearly did not provide that."
The OAS said the only way for the Hondurans to be properly represented and for the victor to reflect the votes of the people would be to conduct a new election that adheres to the strictest measure of the law.
The inconsistencies of the TSE’s review process were discussed during a late press conference with the Electoral Observation Mission, EOM. According to the foreign delegation, the 82 experts had not ensured that the necessary precautions had not been taken to guarantee it’s integrity.
The OAS observers encouraged Hondurans to “remain calm and act responsibly," assuring that the issue will be resolved, denouncing the number of deaths and injuries which have resulted from a series of violent protests around the nation.
However, the European Union election observers have stated they did not encounter any irregularities in the process.
“After comparing a large random sample of voting records provided to us by the Alliance and the original records published on the tribunal’s website, the mission observed that the results presented practically no differences,” said Jose Antonio de Gabriel, the adjunct head of the EU’s mission.
For his part, the opposition candidate, Santiago Nasralla, expressed through a video posted on Facebook that "It is clear that there was fraud before, during and after the elections. (...) The President of the Republic at this moment is an impostor, and the Honduran people know it ".
Nasralla called for a resurgence of protests Monday. The leftist candidate arrives in the United States and plans to meet with Almagro as well as members of the State Department and human rights organizations to denounce the alleged fraudulent elections and solve the current political crisis.
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/ ... -0011.html