How Electorate is Divided in Honduras

More then fitting, it is necessary, that when speaking about the division that exists among Hondurans today in terms of the election of this Sunday, November 29, it be made clear that it is not a question of something divided in more or less similar parts. Instead, on one side there is a high percentage of Hondurans who favor the elections and on the other a very small percentage, although one that uses bombs and violence, that opposes those elections. It must be made clear that there is a division, but in those terms. However, many people insist on speaking about a division in a way that causes confusion, because, in this case, it is indispensable to make clear what the proportions are. It is estimated that at least eighty per cent of the Honduran voters are in favor of the elections and against the return to power of ousted President Zelaya.

There is worldwide expectation with respect to this Sunday’s elections in Honduras since the fate of continental democracy is at stake there because if the wishes of Castro, Chávez and their allies in the region, were to prevail, democracy in the continent would suffer a strong blow. That democracy is also threatened inside the Organization of American States (OAS), for example, due to the great number of pro-Castro governments that there are now in this regional organization.

When considering the Honduran case, emphasis should be place on the anti-juridical attitude of the government of Brazil, presided by Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva, that has tolerated and more than that encouraged subversion in Honduras by being accomplices in the return of Zelaya from abroad and sheltering him in its Embassy in Tegucigalpa. There, Zelaya, with his hat and a microphone, encourages subversion against public order from the balcony of that embassy. The Brazilian president, founder of the infamous Sao Paulo Forum so detrimental for continental democracy, is directing, together with Chávez, much of this conspiracy against Honduran democracy. The presence of Zelaya in the Brazilian Embassy goes against the Vienna Convention that governs international diplomatic life.

There are those who erroneously, although in good faith, believe that the fate of Central American democracy is at stake in Honduras. But, what is at stake here is not only the fate of those republics but also the fate of the whole Western Hemisphere.