Today's Honduran Elections and background of US interference in the region

A video post discussing today’s elections in Honduras, a recent New Yorker article giving an unprecedented look into the US’s pivoting tactics (but not strategy) in the region, and the longer history of anti-democratic meddling here. The dictator JOH is on his way out, but the US is cynically continuing its attacks on neighboring Nicaragua while staying silent about the crimes of its Honduran partners. A grassroots coalition of parties has as its presidential candidate Xiomera Castro, wife of the ex-president Mel Zelaya deposed by the US-backed 2009 coup. Her vice-presidential candidate is Nasrallah, a populist radio-host who rightly won the 2017 election and was robbed by outright election fraud by Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH). A New Yorker article by one Jon Anderson https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/15/is-the-president-of-honduras-a-narco-trafficker
can be usefully read as an attempt by the Blinken State Department to improve the cosmetics and effectiveness of the US’s international war-mongering. It faces up to the uncomfortable fact that the coup and succeeding policies have led to a world-scale disaster in Honduras, with the president embarrassingly being outed in US courts as an international-level drug-trafficker. Important to note is the comparison between US treatment of Honduras, massive amounts of military and financial aid, rhetorical support and meddling on the ruling party’s behalf — and Nicaragua, a dramatically safer society without an immigration crisis, despite sharing a huge border with Honduras and facing devastating economic attacks and sanctions by the US and its allies. How can this be justified? It cannot, it can only be ignored and silenced. The constant scapegoating of migrants and crisis-mongering about the southern border is a sensational displacement of the essential role played by illegal laborers in the bottom strata of agricultural, janitorial, and food services. A public reckoning over the US’s crimes in Honduras and attacks on Nicaragua (as well as Cuba, Venezuela, etc.) is long overdue.