ROBERTO MICHELETTI: "HUNDREDS OF FOREIGNERS COMING IN TO BOYCOTT ELECTIONS"

Alan Benjamin and Rodrigo Ibarra write:
Dear Friends, As you will read below, the de-facto regime of Roberto Micheletti is preparing the conditions for arresting and jailing all opposition leaders and activists who have called for a boycott of the November 29 elections. The regime is spreading disinformation about alleged foreigners from Venezuela and Nicaragua entering Honduras illegally with the sole purpose of disrupting Honduras' "democratic elections."
The specter of Chavez and the foreigners was precisely the justification for the June 28 coup; Chavez was alleged to have been behind Zelaya's so-called power grab -- when, in fact, it was the pressure of the Honduran people that got Zelaya to agree to hold a non-binding referendum as to whether or not the profoundly undemocratic 1982 Constitution should be changed. There was never any question of Zelaya extending his term of office.
Now the foreign bogeyman is being conjured up once again -- this time to deny the legitimacy of the boycott campaign and to prepare the roundup of activists who call for a boycott of the elections.
We have to build a massive movement internationally in defense of the National Front Against the Coup and their right to boycott fake elections and to fight for genuine democracy -- that is, for a National Constituent Assembly. And we must step up our campaign to press President Obama to refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the November 29 fake elections and of the new government emanating from these fake elections.
Hands off the National Resistance Front! Down with the coup government and its fake elections!
In solidarity, Alan Benjamin and Rodrigo Ibarra, Co-Editors, El Organizador

ROBERTO MICHELETTI: "HUNDREDS OF FOREIGNERS COMING IN TO BOYCOTT ELECTIONS"
(translation from Honduran newspaper El Tiempo, Nov. 16, 2009)
De-facto interim "president" Roberto Micheletti said that hundreds of foreigners have been entering the country to boycott the elections scheduled for November 29th. "We have knowledge of this. Our military, supported by our allies and friends, have initiated an investigation that has secured information about people from Venezuela or Nicaragua coming here to try to cause trouble to the electoral process", said Micheletti.
"There is a security plan to protect the population in general, for them to vote without fear, so that they can elect their new authorities".
Micheletti recalled that the Electoral Law in its article 209 stated that, "Will be sanctioned with a penalty of four years in prison whoever, without legitimate authorization, seeks to impede other persons, through violence, the exercise of their electoral rights".
A secondary law expresses that in addition to the electoral crimes that will be sanctioned with prison, will be also punished with prison time all persons who by any means impede access to the electoral locations that are needed for the functioning of the elections.
Calls to boycott the elections have been made by "sectors of society, as well as foreigners who have entered the country", for example "the leaders of the group called Popular Resistance, which has its intent to prevent the election".