Today, Thursday, December 14, 2017 is a national Call-In Day to demand an end to US support for electoral fraud and repression currently occurring in Honduras. Even if you've already called, please join the Honduras Solidarity Network in calling again today as the situation continues to worsen in Honduras:
Call the US Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask for your Senators and Representative. (You can find your Representative here and Senators here). Sample message: I am extremely concerned about the violent repression by state forces in Honduras against people across the country who are protesting fraud. 14 people have been killed and many more injured by live bullets fired by state forces at crowds. The massive irregularities and allegations of fraud in the vote counting process have been well documented and the Honduran Opposition Alliance has presented its vote tally sheets and evidence of fraud to the OAS Electoral Observation Mission. Nevertheless, the electoral authorities have refused to recount the votes and meet basic demands for transparency. I am upset that the US Embassy in Honduras appears to be validating the fraudulent election results instead of calling for an impartial recount of the vote. I ask you to call on the State Department not to recognize the results unless there is a transparent vote recount that meets Opposition Alliance's demands for transparency. Further, given the extreme repression of freedom of expression and attacks on protesters, the US must immediately cut all security aid to Honduras as well as end all political and economic support of the current regime. Please speak out publicly and contact the State Department today.
As protests and movilizations against fraud continue day after day literally all over Honduras, it is the US that is propping up the Juan Orlando Hernandez regime. Without US support, the election authorities' refusal to recount the votes would not stand. Former Honduran president Mel Zelaya, who was removed in the 2009 SOA-graduate led coup, publicly condemned the US for trying to divide the Opposition Alliance and called out the Embassy for legitimizing the current process. Zelaya stated, 'US Embassy Chargé d'Affaires Heide Fulton, in the last forty-eight hours, has dedicating herself to legitimizing the counting of the fraudulent ballot boxes (4753), in a spurious recount, vote by vote of tally sheets that all the Honduran people know have been adulterated in favor of the National Party's illegal candidate.'
On Sunday, thousands gathered outside the US Embassy in the Honduran capital to protest the US Embassy's role in legitimizing fraud. Thousands more marched in cities and towns 
across the country. On Monday and Tuesday, protests were violently repressed. Live bullets were fired by state security forces in numerous locations, including Choluteca, where a man was injured by a bulIet; El Progreso, where police went into houses and detained people; and Jesus de Otoro, where people were detained and beaten and a woman was threatened with rape.
Radio Progeso, a popular Jesuit radio station that provides important critical reporting, received a visit from the authorities and two days later found its antenna sabotaged, stopping it from transmitting in the capital city. Father Ismael Moreno, director of Radio Progreso who has spoken multiple times at the SOAW Vigil also condemned the US Embassy's role in legitimizing fraud, writing: 'I directly accuse the Embassy of the United States for supporting in its positions an illegal and fraudulent process. What occurs against our lives and work in defense of human rights will be in large part responsibility of the alliance between the Embassy and the dictatorship that will emerge.'
Please call your Representative and both your Senators today (202-224-3121).
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