A new article in The Rio Times discusses primary elections in Honduras, arguing the vote was a “failed rehearsal of democracy:

The primary elections in Honduras, with a view to the general elections in November, became “a failed rehearsal of democracy” in which, with the accusations of fraud, it was once again evidenced that the political class does not play fair to a people who finance the electoral processes with their taxes.

The primary or internal elections of the National party, in power; Libertad y Refundación (Libre), first opposition force, and Liberal, second, held last March 14, cost some 1,100 million lempiras (some 45.8 million dollars), which represent a high value for an impoverished . . .

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