Honduras inaugurates lefty president -- named Castro, yet!

[pecksniff]

Story.

For a tiny Central American country of less than 10 million people, Castro’s inauguration was an international event, with attendees including US vice president Kamala Harris, the King of Spain Felipe VI, and Argentina’s popular vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Throughout the continent, the Latin American left celebrated her victory as giving momentum to the “second pink tide” of progressive governments sweeping the region, a tide that will soon include Gabriel Boric in Chile and, hopefully later this year, Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Colombia’s Gustavo Petro.

Castro’s agenda for cleaning house is vast. She called for “no more death squads, no more silence on femicides, no more hired killers, no more drug trafficking, no more organized crime.” She even used the term “democratic socialism” to describe her agenda.

But Castro faces intense challenges going forward. She inherits one of the most violent countries in the world, where the majority of homicides are connected to gangs, organized crime, and drug trafficking; and collusion between government officials, state and private security forces, paramilitary groups, and business leaders is widespread. Honduras is also a nation with a biased and corrupt judiciary that routinely fails to bring perpetrators of violent crimes to justice.

Castro also inherits a nation battered by crushing debt, immense inequality, coronavirus, and recent natural disasters such as intense rains, droughts, and hurricanes. Castro said, “I receive a country bankrupted after twelve years of dictatorship. We are the poorest country in Latin America. That explains the caravans of migrants fleeing northward, risking their lives.”

She pledged free electricity for the country’s poorest citizens and a reduction in fuel prices. But given the bare government coffers, her policies will be constrained by the dictates of foreign donors — especially the United States. Castro will also be constrained by the Honduran Congress, which is in the midst of an intense power struggle that has muddied the waters of her victory lap.

This is the same country where, in 2009, Xiomara Castro's husband, President Manuel Zelaya, was ousted in a military coup -- and there are well-grounded suspicions of American support for it. And American Libertarians have called Honduras under that junta a libertarian paradise.

 

[Rightguide]

Ready to receive instructions from the CCP, no doubt.

 

[pecksniff]

Ready to receive instructions from the CCP, no doubt.

They have no perceptible interest in any leftist politics outside China.

 

[Rightguide]

They have no perceptible interest in any leftist politics outside China.

They are all over central and south America and Africa. They care very much about those local politics. They have big investments there. Get educated.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

They are all over central and south America and Africa. They care very much about those local politics. They have big investments there. Get educated.

I wonder why Pecky is alll over this story and not the banner headline stuff going on in Canada, where a worker's revolt against a hereditary dynasty is underway, causing the racist scion of the family to flee the Winter Palace.

 

[pecksniff]

I wonder why Pecky is alll over this story and not the banner headline stuff going on in Canada, where a worker's revolt against a hereditary dynasty is underway, causing the racist scion of the family to flee the Winter Palace.

You don't mean that dumbass "freedom convoy," do you?

 

[Bud_Spencer]

You don't mean that dumbass "freedom convoy," do you?

Doesn't it do you crypto-commie little heart to see the racist tsar driven from his palaces by the working class?

 

[butters]

You don't mean that dumbass "freedom convoy," do you?

that one does love his super-inflated hyperbole, doesn't he? perhaps Trudeau should have come out, mask-less, and addressed the rabid throngs. How many would sue him for passing on covid to them? *wonders* This way, when the dicks spread it amongst themselves they've only themselves to blame.

 

[pecksniff]

Doesn't it do you crypto-commie little heart to see the racist tsar driven from his palaces by the working class?

To the extent racism exists in Canada, it does not map onto ours -- it has to do with First Nations, Metis and Asians. I've never heard of Trudeau expressing prejudice against any of them. If he ever wore blackface, that's only because it doesn't mean what it means here.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

that one does love his super-inflated hyperbole, doesn't he? perhaps Trudeau should have come out, mask-less, and addressed the rabid throngs. How many would sue him for passing on covid to them? *wonders* This way, when the dicks spread it amongst themselves they've only themselves to blame.

A racist spawn of degenerate parents, brought to power on his name only, grinding the faces of the proletriat with his whimsial ukases, only to have those unwashed now revolt against his misrule.

You'd think if this dissipated pup had any support left, there would be huge counter-demonstrations, no? Yet the streets of Ottawa contain only trucks....

 

[Bud_Spencer]

To the extent racism exists in Canada, it does not map onto ours -- it has to do with First Nations, Metis and Asians. I've never heard of Trudeau expressing prejudice against any of them. If he ever wore blackface, that's only because it doesn't mean what it means here.

Well knock me over with a feather, Pecky once again applying tongue to boot with an elan and expertise unmatched in today's lickspittle community. You use your mouth about as nicely as Kamala does, and to the same ends!

 

[pecksniff]

Well knock me over with a feather, Pecky once again applying tongue to boot with an elan and expertise unmatched in today's lickspittle community. You use your mouth about as nicely as Kamala does, and to the same ends!

What on Earth are you talking about?

 

[Rightguide]

I wonder why Pecky is alll over this story and not the banner headline stuff going on in Canada, where a worker's revolt against a hereditary dynasty is underway, causing the racist scion of the family to flee the Winter Palace.

I smirked when I read the Little Pussy In The North was in hiding from the "fringe" he was talking about.

 

[Rightguide]

What on Earth are you talking about?

He's talking about the amount of fruit cake in your cranium.

 

[pecksniff]

grinding the faces of the proletriat with his whimsial ukases

No disease-containment measures can be so characterized.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

I smirked when I read the Little Pussy In The North was in hiding from the "fringe" he was talking about.

Canadians ave been badasses in battle for decades. They obviously are not cut from the same bolt as Prime Minister Zoolander.

 

[pecksniff]

They are all over central and south America and Africa. They care very much about those local politics. They have big investments there. Get educated.

The Chinese might care about local politics in countries they invest in, but nowhere at all are they trying to stir up Communist revolutions. That might be bad for business.

 

[LittleDixie]

No more death squads.

Ahh, governments and their death squads.

 

[pecksniff]

They are all over central and south America and Africa. They care very much about those local politics. They have big investments there. Get educated.

They care about investments, and local politics only insofar as they affect those investments. It is reckless to stir up Communist revolution in a country where you have money invested.

 

[pecksniff]

And now ex-President Perez has been extradited to the U.S. to face drug-trafficking charges.

 

[JohnEngelman]

What was Xiomara Castro's margin of victory? The smaller it is the less power she has to act on a left wing wish list. That was the mistake Salvador Allende made from 1970 to 1973 in Chile. He won a three way race with less than majority support. Nevertheless he tried to enact a package of reforms more sweeping than President Franklin Roosevelt did after winning a landslide presidential victory 1932.

Before moving ahead with what may be unpopular reforms she needs to solve problems that everyone in Honduras realizes are problems, like one of the highest crime rates in the world.

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[pecksniff]

No more death squads.

Ahh, governments and their death squads.

Agreed. What we need are private-sector death squads!

 

[butters]

there's a trend: first Honduras, then Macron beats the hitleresque wannabe in France, and now https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...pc=U531&cvid=2ef739c07c4a47e48d4f6faeea9e9f69

the ex-marxist turned rightwing populist (despite running under the umbrella od the Democrat party); is highly supportive of trump: held meetings with le pen, and is a close ally to Hungary's EU rebel orkov

But his critics allege that the 63-year-old, who came to prominence as a post-communist reformer, has spent several years eroding democratic standards and restricting press freedom.

He engaged in lengthy rows with the EU over his moves to cut funding for the national news agency and has sought to delay the appointment of prosecutors to the bloc's new anti-corruption body.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...pc=U531&cvid=2ef739c07c4a47e48d4f6faeea9e9f69
Golob's new party lacks experience but plans on a coalition with other, left-leaning parties

He said coalition talks will start in coming days, STA reported, expects to form a government with one or both of two smaller parties, the Social Democrats and the Left.