Evo Morales, Fidel Castro, and Hugo Chavez, Image by Josh, Creative Commons license

Mary O’Grady wrote another brilliant article, entitled The End of Bolivian Democracy, about President Evo Morales, and Bolivian elections in December. In it she provides a chilling scenario of what could have happened to Honduras, and it makes me mourn for the Bolivian people, the poorest in South America. Bolivia voted against a Constitutional Assembly, but Morales used force to lock out the opposition delegates and plow his constitutional mangling through.

I had lost hope that I would be able to vote from outside Honduras, as the Honduran ambassador to Mexico is staunchly pro-Zelaya. The Honduran Consulates in Mexico and the US are boycotting the election. The consul (named Patricia by the way) has seemingly leaned heavily on the press to publish Zelaya propaganda as truth. I had an email discussion with a reporter last week, who published an interview with Zelaya without disclaimer. The result is that now Mexicans believe Zelaya’s false statistics about deaths, violence and repression. Their death toll, 104. The true death toll,  three…four if we include the murder of Micheletti’s nephew, Enzo. If we give some margin of error, the number would still be no more than 12.

But La Gringa wrote today in her blogicito, that the Honduran Supreme Electoral Tribunal has offices in the US, and will be allowing Hondurans living in the US to vote. Sadly, there are no options in Mexico. I am considering making the trip to Houston to vote. But, there is a caveat. Only those who have registered their new home address can vote. I haven’t, and am not very optimistic that it could be changed in time for Sunday. I will call them, hopefully I will be able to.