[Peace-discuss] Will the National Democratic Institute Support the Coup in Honduras?

[Robert Naiman]

A statement put out by Senator Lugar's office this week contained a
striking revelation: apparently, the State Department intends to fund
election observer missions of the International Republican Institute
and the National Democratic Institute for the controversial November
29 Honduras election supervised by the coup regime.
[...]
The NDI, on the other hand, is at least nominally accountable to the
Democratic Party, so its involvement in trying to legitimize elections
under the coup regime is quite surprising. Democratic leaders in
Congress, like Senator Kerry and Representative Berman, have strongly
opposed the coup. Congressional Democrats have urged President Obama
not to recognize elections under the coup regime.

President Rich Trumka of the AFL-CIO, which has good relations, to say
the least, with many Congressional Democrats, has written that
continued repression of trade unionists by the coup regime makes it
impossible to hold free and fair elections. President Trumka called on
the U.S. government to oppose national elections in Honduras unless
President Zelaya is reinstated. Note that Randi Weingarten, president
of the American Federation of Teachers, an AFL-CIO affiliate, sits on
the NDI board.
[...]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/will-the-national-democra_b_365117.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/20/94045/495

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/412


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