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Honduras' Zelaya could bounce back as wife runs for election
Gustavo Palencia
Reuters
7:08 a.m. EDT, October 22, 2013
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Four years after the Honduran military ousted President Manuel Zelaya, forcing him out of bed at gunpoint and spiriting him out of the country in his pajamas, he may be set for a return to the presidential office - as first husband.
His wife, 54-year-old Xiomara Castro, is running neck-and-neck against the ruling party candidate in a tight race to lead the violent Central American country in next month's election.
Castro was catapulted into the spotlight after the 2009 coup when she led protests against the ouster, and she is now running on a toned-down version of her husband's leftist populism.
Many see Zelaya, whose removal triggered a deep political crisis, as the power behind Castro's candidacy. At rallies, supporters often cheer more for him than for his wife.
She promises to "re-found" Honduras, saying that a century of rule by traditional parties has hobbled the country, which now has the world's highest murder rate.
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http://www.courant.com/news/nation-world/sns-rt-us-honduras-election-20131022,0,5676398.story
Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)Hope Honduras recovers from that horrible U.S. supported coup d'tat!
Paolo123
(297 posts)That:
A. The votes are honestly counted, and
B. She lives until election day?
Not many.
One of my guilty pleasures is watching videos of people videoing their encounters with police. The AmIFreeToGo subreddit at reddit.com is a good source of them. Police hate it when you as them "Am I free to go"?
The equivalent to the Imperials is voting. They hate it.
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)compared to being able to successfully solve some of the social problems in Honduras.
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)She has seen in person the effects of the filthy right-wing elite sending the military into her house with guns blazing to violently kidnap her husband. She knows who's in this tiny group of murderous scums who intend to control Hunduras and the lives of everyone unlucky enough to have been born there, and too poor, or tied through bonds to their environment and unable to relocate.
Even while her husband was waiting to come back to his own country, and living within the Brazilian embassy, this woman had the courage to travel openly, hold meetings with the public, knowing fully the kind of murderous trash would be following her every step maybe for the rest of her life.
Your points are appropriate, well considered. God only knows how evil they are going to get with this lady, along with the filthy right-wing scum, and their supporters in U.S. covert operations. and the U.S. Congressional right-wing, people like the reeking excrement, former Senator Jim DeMint, and Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who showed up in Honduras within days of the dirty, illegal, military coup.
[center]
"Rightists Doug Lamborn (R-CO), Peter Roskam (R-IL),
Jim DeMint (R-SC), coup frontman Roberto Micheletti,
& closet case Aaron Schock (R-IL)"
"She-Wolf" Cuban "exile" Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
with temporary coup president, Jim Micheletti.[/center]
Socialistlemur
(770 posts)Seems very caudillista to run a candidate wife as a stand in for her husband. And I bet she toned it down but with Zelaya in control things would get mighty interesting. I bet we would see Venezuela pour in money even if its broke and the Cubans will be hidden behind the curtains. Then we would have to see what they do about crime.
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)The candidate would really have to believe in her cause to do this, especially after having already witnessed Honduran soldiers shooting their way into her home and kidnapping her husband in the middle of the night to illegally deport him, all done for the filthy minority of criminal elite landowners running the country.
Your comments regarding Venezuelans and Cubans seem so ill advised, and odd considering the nasty cabal of monsters who own and control the country regardless of the laws, regardless of the lives of Hondurans they decide to murder at the hands of their "security," many of whom they've imported from Colombia.
"Caudillista." That's really sad.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)Let's hope for a clean election.