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Nicaragua, El Salvador Close Borders With
Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA - Nicaragua and El
Salvador closed on Saturday their customs
posts on the Honduras border and will open
them again on Monday to avoid any possible
incidents linked to Honduras' Sunday
elections, Honduras police officers said.
Nicaragua sealed its El Espino, Guasaule and
Las Manos border posts beginning at 6 a.m.
local time (1200 GMT), police spokesman
Orlin Cerrato told media. El Salvador will
do the same thing at noon local time (1800
GMT), he added.
At the same press conference, Rene Maradiaga
Panchame, the head of the National Police's
General Directorate of Special
Investigations, said that Nicaragua had
taken the measure "to avoid any possible
problems or speculation."
Roberto Micheletti, who became Honduras'
president after the June 28 coup, responded
to the news by blaming Venezuela's President
Hugo Chavez accusing him of trying to apply
boycotts to Hondurans "right to be free."
Hondurans are going to the polls amid a
crisis that has seen the nation pushed out
of the Organization of American States. Only
three nations recognize the elections as
they are currently configured: the United
Sates and its close allies Colombia and
Panama.
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