of the militarily ousted President Zelaya has been chosen as leader of a new political party named LIBRE. Whereas many Hondurans, now in the National Resistance Front, were not Zelaya supporters before the coup, they have been moved by the dignified and courageous positions that both Mel Zelaya and his wife Xiomara have taken since the day of the coup. The 2013 presidential elections will pit corrupted pro-coup, pro-oligarchy parties (likely to be backed openly or indirectly by the U.S. and Canada) against the LIBRE party that has grown out of civil society's courageous opposition to the military coup and on-going repression and out of the desire of a vast majority of Honduran people to re-found their state and society and restore a truly democratic order. LIBRE would easily win truly democratic elections, given the chance. However, these elections will undoubtedly be characterized by electoral corruption and threats and repression against people aligned with the LIBRE party. This is at once a struggle for democracy and human rights in Honduras and across Latin America. It is also, deeply, a struggle for North Americans to hold our governments, companies and investors to account for 'legitimizing' the illegitimate, for empowering a repressive and undemocratic regime. "...If the rhetoric is essential to the philosophy, then there is something wrong with the philosophy. Your massive intellect should be able to describe your philosophy without continually referring to your special rhetoric..." - Yael The Great - Content is user generated and is not moderated before