Months after November’s rigged re-election of President Juan Orlando Hernández, demonstrations and widespread acts of rebellion continue in Honduras, as does a pattern of arbitrary arrest, police brutality and paramilitary violence.
Hernández won by less than two per cent after the reporting of results was suspended several times and the poll lead of his opponent suddenly evaporated. Despite monitors from the pro-US Organization of American States refusing to endorse the results because of ‘widespread irregularities’, the Trump administration congratulated Hernández on his victory. European governments, Canada and Mexico fell in line too. This is in contrast to the widespread condemnation of the various electoral manoeuvrings of Nicolas Maduro’s government in neighbouring Venezuela.
