Honduras Is a Mirror for All of Latin America
- Hilary Goodfriend
Honduras has been under a decade of dictatorship, its 2009 coup heralding a reactionary tide throughout Latin America. Internationalist, anti-imperialist solidarity is desperately needed.
Ex-Honduran president Manuel Zelaya speaks at George Washington University on democracy and the Honduran coup on September 2, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)
Aleksander Aguilar Antunes
The FNRP is a Honduran socio-political organization that arose in response to the 2009 coup d’état, when then-president Manuel Zelaya was detained by the military and expatriated to Costa Rica, which unleashed a process of organization among the president’s sympathizers, unions, and popular and progressive sectors that repudiated the coup and took to the streets of Tegucigalpa to protest.
The Partido Libertad y Refundación (Freedom and Re-Foundation Party – Libre) was born from this process in 2012. After many maneuvers, the coup government finally was legitimated by the National Congress, which permitted the election of Porfirio Lobo Sosa (the right-wing candidate) and continued the institutional procedures that culminated in the fraudulent reelection of Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH).
Given this trajectory and context, what is the current situation of the FNRP? How does it evaluate that experience? How do the current Honduran struggles connect to what has happened and to the FNRP?
Luis Méndez
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