@lunamagica: I'd recognize that the country didn't want Xiomara as president if I had the certainty that these elections were fair and transparent... which they obviously weren't. Sure, elections in Honduras have probably always been like this, but this time people took notice since there were (for the first time in our entire history as a nation) actual, viable electoral alternatives to the two-headed hydra (bipartisanship).
Besides, if we're gonna talk numbers, 63-66% of the country voted AGAINST Juan Orlando. It's only because of our country's deficient electoral laws (obviously tailored to favor archaic bipartisan rule) that there wasn't a "segunda vuelta", like there is in most countries in Latin America.
Social media is just the worst possible benchmark to measure popular opinion in poor countries such as Honduras, because the poor (70%-ish of the populace) aren't exactly renowned for their internet access rates. Even then, Xiomara has upwards of 100,000 'likes' on her facebook profile as opposed to JOH's 60,000-ish 'likes'...so much for your argument.
I find it curious that you should tout Ortega's word as fair and balanced, since probably up to a couple of weeks ago you probably would've spouted off foul words about him, Maduro, Correa and other vile, diabolical 'chavistas' (dog-whistle politick for basically anything/anyone that's even remotely to the left of the extreme right our country is politically situated in), like we're taught to by our orwellian media. If you ask me, he did it for political reasons...after all, the sandinistas have stricken political alliances with the right-wing ARENA (the extremely, egregiously corrupt Arnoldo Aleman's party..I'm not one to judge people by their appearances, but if you ever wanted to see a politican who reinforced Roger Waters' perception of politicians/businessmen as "pigs", well there's your guy).
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