Elvin Santos: Defense of the Electoral Process
Elvin Santos and his wife, in a rally in Talanga
Elvin Santos, the Honduran Liberal party’s presidential candidate, sent me an email today in defense of the electoral process. The Liberal party is Manuel Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti’s party. The email is very clearly a mass email, but still I wonder how he got my address, since I am not registered with his party, but with his opponents, the National party (Pepe Lobo).
Mr. Santos’s chances of winning the election are severely damaged by the current situation. Although I don’t publicly endorse any of the candidates, I’ll take the liberty of translating his message.
“The main starting point for the solution of the political conflict in Honduras is the defense of the electoral process convened for November. The most important thing for us today is to defend the elections; this is the center of the solution of this conflict. What matters is that we have elections so that the world respects the identity and dignity of our fatherland. Today we are immediately required to contemplate that the elections are the way out of this problem, that under no circumstance can we threaten them, that no other alternate routes can be sought, as in other times we have been suggested.
That is why I urge the international community to immediately dedicate time to Honduras, to tell the Secretary of State of the United States, Hillary Clinton, that in Honduras, democracy is at stake, that the peoples hopes to obtain a future are at stake. If time is given to the problem of this Central American country, the international community’s policy toward Honduras must be restructured, and immediately seek another line of action: to listen to the parties; not to impose, but propose way out of our problems.
This is a call to the international community for them to regroup their thoughts and understand once and for all that what we are truly discussing is not the distorted version of distributing a pamphlet or a document between the main presidents with a biased truth. It’s about sitting down and listening to the clamor of the Honduran people, to respect democracy, and transparent and honest elections. We want elections and not the pressure that they are applying to our poor country as they are doing now.”
Image by Elvin Santos‘ campaign
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