Honduras prepares for presidential election under military crackdown

This weekend, Honduras will hold its presidential election. The vote is scheduled for November 29th. It's a pivotal moment in the five-month old political crisis that has divided the country, one of the poorest in Latin America. In June, a military coup forced President Manuel Zelaya from the country by gunpoint when soldiers broke into his home at dawn. Roberto Micheletti, the head of Congress, then took over. Zelaya clandestinely returned to Honduras in September and has since remained in the Brazilian Embassy. Micheletti says that if Zelaya steps a foot outside the embassy grounds he will be arrested for treason.

A compromise between the two leaders fell apart in October and a resolution is far from certain.

Here to discuss the election this weekend and what it means for the crisis is Suyapa Portillo, a research fellow at Pomona College. Portillo is from Honduras and has been closely watching the events there.