Honduras revises down participation in disputed polls

[struggle4progress]

(AFP) – 9 hours ago

TEGUCIGALPA — ... The Washington-based Organization of American States (OAS), which suspended Honduras after the coup but has been divided over the crisis, held an emergency meeting Friday on the election, with its chief Jose Miguel Insulza warning a consensus was unlikely.

The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) posted figures of 49 percent participation after two thirds of votes were counted, down from 62 percent initially given on Sunday ...

Secretary General Insulza warned at the start of the OAS Permanent Council's meeting that the body was divided on the Honduran elections, adding that "recognizing a government as legitimate" was a decision each OAS member state must make freely.

The OAS "cannot give a definitive verdict on this election, which we did not observe and was held in special circumstances," he added ...

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[Peace Patriot]

1. So the gang of 4 bullies and toadies assembled by Obama/Clinton....

...four countries...

Colombia--one of the worst human rights records on earth, run by narco-thugs, thousands of labor leaders and others murdered, $6 BILLION in US military aid, SEVEN new US military bases
Peru--run by corrupt "free tradists" who used a gunship helicopter to open fire on indigenous protestors
Panama--just got two new US military bases
Costa Rica--where Arias ran "free trade" over the unions like a bulldozer, and played Clinton's "delay game" on Honduras

gets to overrule...

Guatemala
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Mexico
Brazil
Chile
Argentina
Venezuela
Bolivia
Ecuador
Paraguay
Uruguay
Cuba
Dominica
& others

plus Spain, the EU, the UN, the Rio Group, UNASUR and ALBA???

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Very disturbing. The US in its bribe and bully mode continuum from the Bush Junta to this.

[EFerrari]

2. Wait -- this wasn't the best attended election ever?

How do you go from 62% to 49%?

[Downwinder]

3. Better yet, how do you get to 49%?

There must be more than 20 families in Honduras.

[struggle4progress]

4. "Nobody believes this bullshit, so maybe we better cut our estimate back a bit"

It's sorta like the game the Iraq government used to play back in the Bush era:

"Only 200 Iraqis died this month"
"Um, the Baghdad morgue says they're getting 1000 bodies a month"
"We have revised our estimate! Only 500 Iraqis died this month"