December 2009 – Page 6 – Upside Down World

Behind Bars in Honduras: An Interview with a Women’s Rights Leader Before the ‘Free’ Election

December 2, 2009 Tamar Sharabi 0

Merlin Eguigure helped organize an event on Nov. 25 for the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The next day while leaving a restaurant in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, members of COBRA, the special police force, ambushed her. They searched her car and detained her and two companions for having spray paint in the car. But her real crime is being a part of the “Movement of Women for Peace Visitacion Padilla” and a ‘Feminist in Resistance,’ and for speaking out against the coup regime that took power on June 28. […]

Honduras sometida: Bajo elecciones ilegitimas

December 2, 2009 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel 0

Fuente: América Latina en Movimiento La comunidad internacional, los gobiernos y pueblos latinoamericanos no pueden avalar las elecciones inmorales e ilegitimas realizadas en Honduras. El gobierno de los EEUU es cómplice y gestor del […]

Bolivia: Todas las encuestas apuntan a Evo

December 2, 2009 Alex Contreras Baspineiro 0

Fuente: América Latina en Movimiento Todas las encuestas que realizan las empresas privadas, los partidos políticos y la misma embajada norteamericana, aseguran que las elecciones generales del próximo 6 de diciembre en Bolivia las ganará […]

Latin America: Summit Does Not Recognise Elections in Honduras

December 2, 2009 Mario de Queiroz 0

(IPS) – The hard-line stance taken by Brazil, Argentina and most other Latin American countries has clashed with U.S. efforts to push for international recognition of the elections organised Sunday by the de facto regime […]

Election Report From Honduras: The People Say “We Didn’t Vote!”

December 2, 2009 Jackie McVicar 0

Tegucigalpa, Honduras – After a long bus ride back from the north eastern part of the country and the department of Colon, we arrived in the capital today just in time to join a massive caravan organized by the Popular Resistance Front. Like the other demonstrations held since the coup d’etat on June 28, the mobilization winded through the "barrios", the neighborhoods in Tegucigalpa where supporters left their homes to show their support.

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Uruguay Elects Former Guerrilla as Next President

December 1, 2009 Darío Montero 0

Left-wing candidate José Mujica was elected president of Uruguay with nearly 52 percent of the vote Sunday, seven to eight percentage points ahead of his rival, the right-wing Luis Alberto Lacalle, according to projections by pollsters. […]

Live From Honduras: Electoral Observations

December 1, 2009 Belén Fernández 0

On the evening of November 29, the Honduran Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) announced that a technical error had impeded the “second verification of data” in the tallying of the day’s election results. The error had occurred despite repeated TSE claims that the efficiency of its tallying process would enable Honduras and the world to become acquainted with the country’s next president within hours of the closing of the polls. […]