Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
 
			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).
 
               The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG
 
               Noboa’s second term looks set to deepen his neoliberal policies: reduced public investment, privatization, cuts to social programmes, and militarisation, says PILAR TROYA FERNANDEZ
 
                
               
 
               

