Latin American elections in the coming weeks

Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 11/06/2021 - 4:51pm

The first one that's right around the corner is in Honduras. While I almost stopped following this election because it seemed like a lost cause, it has now become the most promising.

Xiomara Castro is the wife of former President Manuel Zelaya, who was deposed in a military coup in 2009. Her getting elected would be an enormous boon to the region. Not to mention a continuation of the region turning to the left.
Remember all of those migrant caravans? Honduras is where they were coming from, and to give you an example of why, consider this story from today.

Honduran authorities on Thursday arrested presidential candidate Santos Rodriguez over accusations of money laundering related to drug-trafficking and homicide, including the murder of a DEA informant.
His arrest comes less than a month ahead of presidential elections in which the main candidates all face accusations of either corruption or drug trafficking.

Outgoing President Juan Orlando Hernandez has himself been accused of drug-trafficking, while his brother Tony Hernandez was in March sentenced to life in prison in New York for the same crime.

The concern with Honduras is the chances of the totally corrupt political leadership rigging the election like they did in 2017, and then crushing the protestors with police violence.

The news isn't so good for Chile, which will have an election at the end of the month.

The leftwing candidate, former student leader Gabriel Boric hasn't so much fallen in the polls, as he's fallen behind Jose Antonio Kast. The problem is the implosion of the center-right candidate Sichel, who's followers has moved to the far-right, Bolsonaro-like Kast, a supporter of the dictator Augusto Pinochet.
This is not good. But it's too early to despair because neither candidate is likely to get a majority, so a run-off will almost certainly happen in December. I've seen no polling for the 2nd round run-off.
Recall the Chilean election from earlier this year for rewriting the neoliberal constitution. The progressives surprised the pollsters and crushed the conservatives in that election.

In the spring of 2022, Colombia will hold its own election and leftist Gustavo Petro is said to be leading by a lot, but I've been unable to track down the polling to back that up.
Brazil's 2022 election is further away, but Lula is dominating the polls and I just don't see that changing.

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Submitted by humphrey on Sat, 11/06/2021 - 10:07pm

Don't forget the election in Nicaragua. It is tomorrow!

The US and its puppets have already proclaimed the results as being illegitimate.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Sat, 11/06/2021 - 11:00pm

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Excellent article on our interference in countries that don’t do what we want. The things we’ve have been beyond heinous. I’m not sure if there is a word for it. Here’s a taste.

In fact, America has a rather storied history of creating and propping up some of history’s most heinous strongmen. Creatures like Suharto of Indonesia, who inaugurated his thirty-year reign of terror by helping his masters in Washington to liquidate the third-largest communist party on the planet with paramilitary hordes of machete-wielding fiends. Over the span of several months between 1965 and 1966 more than half a million people were butchered. Men strung from flagpoles in town squares, women raped to death with knives, their heads decorated the streets on pikes, their severed genitals decorated the quarters of Suharto’s proud headhunters, what remained of the bodies were impaled with bamboo to keep them from floating and clogging up the rivers. All while unrepentant State Department hacks at the American embassies checked off the names of the slain that they provided to these ghouls one by one.

There’s is so many more countries we’ve destroyed by training brutal people to do our bidding through the school of the Americas. Looks like Nicaragua is next in line. Anti immigrants think that they should just stay in their country and overthrow the government that we installed instead of fleeing and coming here. Uninformed for not knowing why they do.