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'Low integrity' election in Honduras

‘Low integrity’ election in Honduras

December 19, 2017

Twenty-four people have been killed by police in demonstrations since the presidential election in Honduras three weeks ago. The centre-left Alliance, headed by Salvador Nasralla, appeared to be the clear winner after 57 per cent of votes had been counted, but a suspiciously dramatic late swing towards the incumbent, Juan Orlando Hernández, gave him a […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Honduras, US intervention, dictators

Hard times in Honduras

Hard times in Honduras

December 5, 2017

A week after apparently losing an election in which he was constitutionally barred from standing, the president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, now seems to have carried out a coup (‘autogolpe’ in Spanish) to keep himself in power. Hernández (known as JOH, pronounced ‘Ho’) went into the election last Sunday (26 November) promising to continue […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Honduras, dictators

Empire's Crossroads: A history of the Caribbean from Columbus to the present day

Empire’s Crossroads: A history of the Caribbean from Columbus to the present day

December 30, 2014

There are many histories of the Americas that begin with Columbus’s landing in what were to become known as the West Indies, but this is perhaps one of the few accessible accounts which focus on the Caribbean itself, and which follow through right to the present day. Carrie Gibson’s thesis is that the Caribbean was […]

Category: Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: caribbean, Spanish conquest, Cuba, US intervention, Latin America, dictators

The Saint of Santa Fe by Silvio Sirias

The Saint of Santa Fe by Silvio Sirias

December 30, 2014

Silvio Sirias comes from a Nicaraguan family who brought him up initially in the United States, but clearly bequeathed him a strong interest in finding out about the story of the region from which the family came. His latest novel is based in Panama, where he now lives, and I’ve yet to read his first, […]

Category: Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: panama, dictators

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