Real News Network report, December 3, 2009: ``An election validated by blood and repression''. The Honduran coup government continued its repressive tactics on election day (report from San Pedro Sula by Jesse Freeston).

By the National Resistance Front against the Coup d'etat

Communiqué number 41

November 30, 2009 -- The National Resistance Front Against the Coup d'etat, to the Honduran people and the international community communicates:

1. The complete failure of the electoral farce set up by the oligarchy on November 29, 2009, in dictatorial conditions confirms our proposal of declaring the elections and their results illegal and illegitimate, in addition to reinforcing our position of not recognising the regime to be installed on January 27, 2010.

2. We call on the democratic and honest governments and social movements of the world to reject the electoral farce and not recognise the would-be government to be installed in January.

3. Having carried out an electoral process that lacks all legitimacy and legality and that attempts to guarantee the power of a minority of the population, the installation of a National Constitutional Assembly represents the alternative to channel the demands of political participation of all of the Honduran people. We will continue struggle for this.

4. We reiterate that all of the acts that the current de facto regime and its successor carry out will not be recognised by the people. We especially emphasise our rejection of any amnesty for violators of human rights.

5. We take this moment to recognise the work of the Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared of Honduras, which today completes 27 years of vigilance for truth, justice and the construction of a society where human rights are guaranteed to all.

WE RESIST AND WE WILL WIN!

Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

We denounce the electoral farce

By the National Resistance Front against the Coup d'etat

Communiqué number 40

November 29, 2009 -- With complete satisfaction we announce to the Honduran people and the international community that the electoral farce set up by the dictatorship regime has been absolutely defeated due to the low turn-out of voters at the poll sites, to the extent that the Supreme Electoral Tribune had to prolong the poll another hour until 5 p.m.

You don't need glasses to see what is in front of your eyes. Nationwide monitoring by our organisation proved that the level of abstention during the process is at least of 60-75%, which is the highest in our national history, and implies that only a maximum of 30-35% of registered voters voted. This is the way that the Honduran people are punishing the pro-coup candidates and the dictatorship, whom now are having problems demonstrating to international public opinion a level of turnout that never existed.

To make it appear that way they have resorted to fraudulent maneuvres like bringing in El Salvadorans from the ARENA Party into our country, as was denounced by the farmers in the municipality of Magdalena, Intibucá. And we expect that they will try to increase the turnout numbers by means of electronic manipulation.

In desperation the de facto regime has brutally repressed the peaceful march that took place in the city of San Pedro Sula, in which several brothers and sisters were hurt, beaten and detained; and one person is reported missing.

Amongst the wounded is a Reuters reporter, the detained include two nuns from the Latin American Council of Churches who were there as human rights observers.

Considering that this result represents a great victory of the Honduran people, the National Resistance Front invites all the Honduran people in resistance to celebrate the defeat of the dictatorship.

On Monday, November 30, 12pm we convoke in Tegucigalpa a great assembly in the STIBYS union headquarters and then will have the great Caravan of Victory against the Electoral Farce.

We resist and we will win!

Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Honduran MPs debate Zelaya's future

December 2, 2009 -- Morning Star -- Honduran MPs have begun debating constitutional President Manuel Zelaya's future under pressure from much of the region to reinstate him or face more isolation.