Nov 24, 2013--Today, a presidential election takes place in Honduras. Leading the polls is the self-described socialist candidate Xiomara Castro Sarmiento de Zelaya. Her husband is the elected president who was ousted in 2009 by a military coup, Manuel Zelaya.
Zelaya is the candidate of LIBRE, an acronym for Liberty and Refoundation (and also for Liberals in Resistance). It is the political arm of the Front for National Popular Resistance (FNRP). Founded a little more than two years ago, LIBRE is, like the FNRP itself, a coalition of five political tendencies, each regrouping smaller political and social organisations.
Zelaya is leading in the polls and unless the election result is stolen, her anticipated victory will have large and powerful repercussions throughout Central America. Here are two articles reporting on the forthcoming election:
- Honduras: The importance of Xiomara Castro's November 24 presidential election campaign, by Elena Zeledon, Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, November 23, 2013
- Honduras elections: leftist party challenges right's grip on power, Nina Lakhani in Tegucigalpa, The Guardian, November 22, 2013