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order to cover up the invalidity of the upcoming
November 29 elections, the usurping regime of
Roberto Micheletti is heavily recruiting—via an
association of pro-coup businesspeople — "observers"
from right-wing extremist organizations.
"Between 300 and 500 observers have now been
confirmed," was the headline on the daily La Prensa,
owned by the local magnate, Jorge "Pepsi" Canahuati,
while the author of an article inside the paper
claimed, with pro-coup fervor, that "about 600" of
these "international observers from Northern, South
and Central America" will be present at the
elections.
Finding such observers when all international
agencies devoted to this activity have refused to
cooperate has been entrusted by the military/business
junta in Tegucigalpa to one of its most active
partners, Amilcar Bulnes, president of the Honduran
Council of Private Enterprise (COHEP).
Bulnes told the daily La Prensa — owned by his
friend Canahuati — that the election process "is
central to providing a better investment climate,"
which should be based on "social stability." This
opinion is shared by the hierarchies of the army,
police and death squads run by Billy Joya.
"They will come from the United States, Europe,
Chile, Argentina, Colombia and Central America,"
Bulnes specified, revealing that two of them are
among the most "eminent" representatives of the
continent’s extreme right-wing forces: the former
presidents of Guatemala, Alvaro Arzú, and of El
Salvador, Alfredo Cristiani.
It has already been announced that the coup
regime’s elections will feature representatives —
also described as "observers" — from the neo-Nazi
group UnoAmérica; the Latin American and Caribbean
Network for Liberty, an appendage of the Liberty
Foundation financed by the National Endowment for
Democracy (NED); and the Foundation for Social
Analysis and Studies, run by the former Spanish
prime minister, José María Aznar.
The organization UnoAmérica, tied to the CIA and
financed by the NED, was involved earlier this year
in a plot to assassinate President Evo Morales of
the Plurinational State of Bolivia.
