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Honduran Tension Increasing
After
Militarization
TEGUCIGALPA - The vast deployment of armed forces,
policemen, paramilitary bodies, and
reservists continue reheating Tuesday the
political tension unleashed in Honduras,
almost five months of the military coup.
The mobilization of troops, which
characterizes the nation after the military
coup against Constitutional President Manuel
Zelaya, makes more ostentatious whatever the
questioned November 29 elections get closer.
The country's military chief Gen. Romeo
Vazquez announced special plans, including
the transfer of soldiers in helicopters to
any point in Honduras he considers
necessary.
The National Front against the Coup d'Etat
denounced this weekend that the repressive
wave gripping Honduras includes mercenaries
contracted by armed forces.
That huge alliance of people's forces called
to ignore the electoral process for terming
it a farce organized by the de facto regime
to try to legitimize the June 28 coup
d'etat.
President Zelaya, who has been staying in
the Brazilian embassy since his return to
the country on September 21, stated that he
will impugn elections for being illegal due
to the destruction of democracy in the
nation.
The statesman sent a letter to regional
presidents on Monday, in which he requested
they ignore results of the elections, a
stance already confirmed by most of the
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