Today begins the presidential and legislative election of the Central American of Honduras. With the left-wing Libre party, wish wishes to change the constitution to an anti-neolib and democratic socialist stance, at odds with the liberal and social conservative neoliberal bloc.
Whilst this is happening, Trump has pardoned a former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking offences whilst going off about how conveniently the whole Venezuelan military high command is full of alleged drug traffickers. Honduras is of considerable strategic importance to the United States. With several U.S. Army bases situated there. Trump has also gone off about how the electorate must vote away from the Libre "communists" and vote anyone else.
>right wing candidate is called "tito"
>>2578936 >the left-wing Libre partyapparently it's functionally lib party.
update?
>>2579485there are no results yet. idk how long results in honduras take to be announced tbqh. i believe polls closed almost 2 hours ago
The Honduran government is doing their own mano dura against the gangs and criminal elements is it going to get attacked by the more right wing forces? I would imagine they slobber over Bukkakes cock but do they also support this governments efforts?
the bukelito trump picked won
its over
they voted for the narco party
>>2579848colour me surprise
>>2579848I have not been paying attention to this shit at all.
What the fuck do you mean they voted for the narco party.
>>2583145Basically the party is known for being the standard "christian traditionalist" neoliberal bullshit party that has leader who litterally were envolved in massive drug trafficking operations and are crittically with the narcos. They were massively involved in a coup that toppled down the centre-left goverment by the party mentioned in the thread by occupying with "private militias". I have honduran friends and what they pretty much told me about is that these private militias are more powerful and big than the goverment itself and are obviously owned by the oligarchs of the country.
>>2583145America is threatening to pull all aid if they vote for the socialists so they're voting for the narcs
Also very obvious corruption.
Isn't Libre complaining about election fraud?
>Although Mr. Cerrato López, 62, normally backed the right-wing National Party, he said he had planned to vote for another right-wing candidate, Salvador Nasralla, who was leading by a small margin in some polls, in hopes of kicking the governing left-wing party out of office.
>But when President Trump threw his support behind the National Party’s candidate, Nasry Asfura, just days before the vote, and suggested he wouldn’t work with the other top two candidates, Mr. Cerrato López said he was surprised but pleased. He said he switched his vote to Mr. Asfura.
>And when Mr. Trump announced that he would pardon a notorious former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, a member of Mr. Asfura’s party who was convicted last year of working with cartels to flood the United States with cocaine, Mr. Cerrato López said he was more confident in his decision because he believed Mr. Hernández had helped the military when in office.
>Mr. Mejía said that independent voters and “many” supporters of Mr. Asfura’s party had intended to vote for Mr. Nasralla because they saw him as having the best chance to end the tenure of the governing party, which includes the candidate Rixi Moncada.
>“But when they heard that about Trump, they went back to their party, and some independents started to have doubts,” he said.
>Ricardo Romero Gonzales, who runs an independent polling company in Honduras, said that based on his daily polling, Mr. Nasralla had a nine-point lead before Mr. Trump’s endorsement of Mr. Asfura. After Mr. Trump weighed in, he said, the candidates were in a virtual tie.
>Mr. Romero Gonzales said that roughly a third of Hondurans have a family member in the United States and that people thought about them when voting. He added, “People believe the country will be worse off if we are enemies of Trump.”
>Hondurans who voted for Mr. Asfura said they did so in part because they yearned for a better relationship with the United States. They said they worried that a different candidate winning could hurt Honduras, a country that relies heavily on money transfers from many undocumented migrants in the United States.
>Alexi Salustriano Vargas, 65, a shoe shiner in Tegucigalpa, said he hoped that Mr. Asfura could perhaps stem the tide on Mr. Trump’s deportations of undocumented Hondurans, or perhaps even have a migrant protection program restored. (Mr. Trump has not promised either if Mr. Asfura wins.)
<lmao
>Norma Ortega, 58, who has been selling fruits and vegetables for over two decades in Tegucigalpa, said she would have voted for Mr. Asfura anyway, but Mr. Trump’s backing made her feel more confident. She said she believed that Mr. Asfura could help protect Honduras’s remittance flow and its migrants.
>libre party rejects the result
>says they want the election annulled because of fraud from the two party system and US interference
nothing ever happens
honestly leftists need to start rigging elections like maduro did. you cant just let neolibs take over and destroy everything youve built
>>2588839How do you rig a system that you don't control?
>>2588839maduro didnt rig elections you glowie
>>2588867So true, next you're going to bring up the Korean Social Democratic Party.
>>2578936>wishes to change the constitution to an anti-neolib and democratic socialist stance, at odds with the liberalLOL
>>2588870The DPRK doesn't have a bourgeois democrat election model.
>>2588839This is my position on Maduro too, even if he did rig the erections its still better than the alternative who would destroy the revolution.
>>2578974many such cases (actually all such cases)
Election protests in Honduras as Congress panel vows not to validate result
Officials of a Honduras Congress panel threatened on Wednesday not to validate the result of a Nov. 30 presidential election, citing an "electoral coup" and "interference" by U.S. President Donald Trump, as counting stretched into an 11th day.
While the ruling LIBRE leftist party has no chance of winning the election, it is throwing its support behind Salvador Nasralla, of the center-right Liberal party, who has also alleged fraud and said he has won the election.
It is unclear if Wednesday's declaration by the permanent commission of Congress, which escalates the election crisis, could be enough to annul the results, which must be validated by two of the three members of the National Electoral Council.
With more than 99% of ballots counted, conservative Nasry Asfura of the National Party was about 40,000 votes ahead of Nasralla of the Liberal Party, while LIBRE candidate Rixi Moncada was a distant third.
But inconsistencies in roughly 15% of the tally sheets require further review, heightening the political suspense, as those could be sufficient to sway the election outcome.
<could honduras become the 1st country to defy the us under trump?
>Honduran president Xiomara Castro announces that she will denounce an alleged "electoral coup" to the UN, the OAS, and the EU, accusing U.S. president Donald Trump of "interference."
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