s elections in Honduras has demanded a recount, claiming tally sheets were altered, ballots were cast by dead or absent people and polling stations were inadequately monitored. Juan Orlando Hernández, of the ruling National party, was declared the winner with 37% of the votes, compared to 29% for Xiomara Castro. Six other candidates shared the remainder. The voting was monitored by the European Union...
s candidate who campaigned on a law-and-order platform, had an irreversible lead in the hotly contested presidential race. Even before the announcement late on Monday, his main competitor, Xiomara Castro , had challenged the official returns and claimed victory for herself. Her husband, the former president Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a 2009 coup, said they wouldn't accept the results. With about...
s next president, while two of his four main opponents began crying foul early on Monday over the results in the violent and impoverished Central American nation. With just over half the ballots tallied by late on Sunday, Juan Orlando Hernandez of the governing National party had the edge over Xiomara Castro, whose husband Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a 2009 coup that has left the country politically...
Country racked by drug violence and instability goes to the ballot boxes but pollsters predict no clear winner The presidential election in Honduras was heading towards a stalemate, according to the latest polls, in a country reeling from violence, poverty and the legacy of a 2009 coup. The election pits Xiomara Castro, whose husband Manuel Zelaya was overthrown in a military-backed coup, against...
s most eagerly anticipated elections in decades, a group of young people wearing red and white T-shirts are busy handing out stickers and voting information to passers-by in the rowdy main square of the capital, Tegucigalpa. Red and white are the colours of the Freedom and Refoundation party, known by its Spanish acronym Libre, and the young people are part of an army of activists who have changed...
the most dangerous [peace time] country' on the planet," said Jacky Repila of Raising Her Voice , an Oxfam-backed project that has attempted to extend the rights and capacity of women in developing countries to influence and participate in governance. "Of the 22,000 cases [involving women] reported in 2012, less than 2% were investigated … Between 2003 and 2007 the number of men murdered in Honduras...
British pop star in Honduras to learn about the epidemic of violence against women in the Central American country Simon Rawles ...
s presidential vote is a key test of whether Honduras can return to democracy after the US-supported 2009 coup Do the people of Honduras have the right to elect their own president and congress? That depends on whom you talk to. In 2009, the country's left-of-center President Mel Zelaya was overthrown in a military coup that was heavily supported (and, according to Zelaya , organized) by the United...
s statements to the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras and the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation that policemen seeking video footage of demonstrations by opponents of the June 2009 military coup had threatened to kill his family. Murillo continued his freelance journalism work despite continual threats and intimidation. The Paris-based press freedom organisation, Reporters...
Gregor MacGregor, self-appointed Prince of the fictional Territory of Poyais, turns out to be an accomplished swindler Some months ago Sir Gregor MacGregor , a person of whom we do not choose to say all that we think, induced a number of persons, chiefly Scotch, to emigrate to a settlement which he gave them to understand was formed, and in a flourishing condition, on the Mosquito coast near Honduras....
s cancelled visit, over NSA spying, ought to jolt the US out of its arrogant disrespect for Latin America Tuesday's cancellation of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's state visit to the White House, scheduled for next month, came as little surprise. Documents leaked by Edward Snowden, and reported by Glenn Greenwald and TV Globo, had caused an uproar in Brazil. According to the documents and reports,...