Tag: Honduran: Stolen Honduran election

NOVANEWS By Nick Pardee Major demonstrations have swept through Honduras following a thinly-veiled power grab by the U.S.-backed regime in the November 26 Presidential elections. Salvador Nasralla, the candidate of the progressive Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship, was initially reported to have an “irreversible” lead over incumbent President and U.S. lackey Juan Orlando Hernández. Following these reports, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), a body that even the New York Times admits is “controlled by Mr. Hernández’s allies,” stopped disclosing results, returning over a day later to incredulously announce Hernández was in the lead and on the path to victory. 2009 Coup: Before and After Only a few years prior, Hernández’s re-election campaign would have been deemed ille...