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Honduras’ left-wing breakthrough
Since a US-backed coup toppled Mel Zelaya in 2009, Honduras has faced a clampdown on democracy and serious human rights abuses. But the election of socialist Xiomara Castro is a chance to break the cycle, writes FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
Xiomara Castro has won the elections, but will now face a wide range of political, social and economic subversion
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For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
WHAT appeared impossible has been achieved: the people of Honduras have broken the perpetuation, through electoral fraud and thuggish violence, of a brutal, illegal, illegitimate and criminal regime.
By means of sheer resistance, resilience, mobilisation and organisation, they have managed to defeat Juan Orlando Hernandez’s narco-dictatorship at the ballot box.
Xiomara Castro, presidential candidate of the left-wing Libre party (the Freedom and Refoundation Party, in its Spanish acronym), obtained a splendid 50+ per cent — between 15 to 20 per cent more votes than her closest rival candidate, Nasry Asfura, National Party candidate, in an election with historic high levels of participation (68 per cent).
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