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Honduras: As Presidential Elections Near, Still Coping with U.S.-Backed Coup
- Rania Khalek
- Saturday 30 Oct 21
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The Honduran presidential election is coming up November 28, and the leftist LIBRE candidate Xiomara Castro is in the lead. But the country is still plagued by the effects of the U.S.-orchestrated coup in 2009, and elections since the coup have had wide-scale fraud.
Can Castro prevail? Zoe Alexandra, co-editor of Peoples Dispatch & journalist covering social movements and left politics in Latin America and the Caribbean, explains.
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Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is a Middle East-based journalist for Breakthrough News. . Her journalism has appeared at The Grayzone, Jacobin, The Nation, The Intercept, FAIR, Vice, The Electronic Intifada, Al Jazeera and more. .
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