Honduran elections have wide-ranging consequences
Honduran elections have wide-ranging consequences
By SUYAPA G. PORTILLO VILLEDA
McClatchy-Tribune News Service November 13, 2013
On Nov. 24, Hondurans will elect their next president of the republic, an election that could reverberate in Washington.
In 2009, a coup derailed the democratically elected president, Manuel Zelaya, and ushered in a period of repression.
In response, a resistance movement arose and formed a new political party, LIBRE, which has flung open the doors to the electoral system, destabilizing the 100-year-old two-party system, dominated by the Liberal and Nationalist parties from their positions of privilege.
While the coup, which the U.S. State Department winked at, was supposed to entrench right-wing forces, it did just the opposite. It rekindled a social movement now known as La Resistencia. It inspired new actors, and it changed Honduras forever.
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