Activists blocked roads and clashed with police in Honduras on Saturday as part of nationwide protests against the contested re-election of President Juan Orlando Hernandez. Dozens of people have been killed and hundreds jailed since Hernandez was declared the winner of the November 26 run-off election — but only after a three week stretch of […]
Central America articles on Democracy Chronicles
Bordered by Mexico to the north and Colombia to the southeast, Central America consists of seven countries: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Many countries in the region suffer from high crime rates.
Honduras opposition bid to annul president’s re-election rejected
Election officials in Honduras on Friday rejected the opposition’s appeal demanding the annulment of President Juan Orlando Hernandez’s re-election, which was lodged over voter fraud allegations in the bitterly disputed poll. The country’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), in a statement, cited a lack of evidence and dubbed the opposition’s actions “groundless.” Election officials declared Hernandez […]
Bitter Honduras election crisis threatens stability
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez called on the opposition Tuesday to hold talks with his government, after he was declared the winner of a bitterly disputed election. But the opposition candidate, Salvador Nasralla, rejected dialogue — unless it was to confirm that he, and not Hernandez, won the November 26 poll. A key figure in […]
Honduras opposition blocks roads in post-election protest
Supporters of Honduras’s opposition blocked roads in towns and cities on Friday to demand their candidate Salvador Nasralla be declared the winner of a presidential election held nearly three weeks ago. It was the latest protest to highlight the uncertainty and allegations of fraud that have clouded the outcome of the November 26 election. Both […]
Manuel Noriega: Remembering a Central American Dictator
The former dictator, ousted by US forces in 1989, spent the last decades of his life in prison in the US
Why Guatemala’s Claudia Escobar Won the 2017 Democracy Award
Claudia Escobar has won the National Endowment for Democracy’s 2017 Democracy Award
Stubborn Violence Epidemic Hampering Caribbean Democracy
Violence mars Caribbean life, study finds violent crime and a tolerance for domestic violence
The Uncertain Future of Latin American Populist Movements
Latin America’s recent rightward spiral should not be seen as the end of the populist era in the region
How To Be A Democracy Under Trump
It is up to us to insist upon democracy. It is essential that we continue to demonstrate and march, to bombard Trump and our other elected officials with tweets, posts, phone calls, and emails.
A Teacher and DREAMer Tries to Explain the Inexplicable to Children
I can not imagine the pain of being a teacher today, especially in a multilingual school. Talking to young angels who do not understand the madness of the past few weeks seems to me impossible