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...placed. The bomb, made of a tiny amount of C4 plastic explosive, was designed to scare rather than scar, police said - like dozens of similar bombs that have detonated across Honduras as the nation prepares to vote on Sunday in the first election since its President Manuel Zelaya was forced out in a military coup in June. (See pictures of post-coup violence in Honduras...
...blasts - for which no one has claimed responsibility - are one more sign that the republic of coffee and banana plantations is in no condition to hold an election, says Zelaya, who has been holed up in the Brazilian embassy since sneaking back into the country in September. With the coup's de facto government muzzling the Honduran media, cracking down on protests and locking up dissidents, a fair vote is impossible, Zelaya argues. "This is the first time in history that the executioners are being allowed to oversee a so-called transition back to democracy," he told TIME by telephone...
...However, the new presidential candidates, election officials and an increasing number of foreign governments argue that Honduras has to move on, even if in imperfect circumstances. One of the latest figures to recognize the ballot is Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, who had overseen talks to try and get Zelaya back into the presidential palace. With those attempts apparently failing, sanctions and isolation of Honduras now will only punish an already poor country, Arias said. "Why do we want to make Honduras into the Burma of Central America? Why do we want a second Hurricane Mitch?" he told...
...restoration by the end of this week, but the deputies are demanding more time to deliberate. The accord also requires the creation, by week's end, of a multiparty "unity" government to run Honduras until a new President takes office on Jan. 27. But the ongoing dispute over whether Zelaya or Micheletti will be President until then raises doubts over the appointment of such a government. If Zelaya is not restored, his supporters have vowed a boycott of the election and perhaps street demonstrations to impede it. In the plaza in front of Congress, backers of Zelaya, wearing his trademark...
...Obama Administration is technically correct when it argues that last week's pact allows it to recognize the Nov. 29 election even without Zelaya's restoration - a result that would let Obama wipe his hands of the Honduras mess while getting U.S. conservatives off his back. But analysts like Diaz warn that to Latin America and the rest of the world, "That would just return us to the same situation as before, leaving Honduras to face the international community with little credibility." Solis herself said this week after arriving in Honduras that "what happens here has implications regionally...