This is a statement from the Black Alliance for Peace ( blackallianceforpeace.com ) on the victory of Xiomara Castro, presidential candidate of the Libre Party, in the Sunday, November 28th Honduran election. She will be the country's first female president and its first leader in decades not from the Liberal or National parties. Honduras has been led by the National Party, including current president Juan Orlando Hernandez, for most of the years since the June 28, 2009 US-abetted coup against Manuel Zelaya, Castro's spouse [There was an anti-"JOH" contingent at the Women's March on the Pentagon in October 2018: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2018/10/reportback-from-womens-march-on.html ; for more details about the election see: www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/02/libre-party-and-presidential-candidate-xiomara-castro-win-big-in-honduras-elections/ ].
Democracy Scores Another Victory Over the U.S. in Honduras
Black Alliance for Peace Statement on Honduran Elections
The anti-colonial, pro-human rights members of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) welcome the resounding victory of the people of Honduras. “Again, the people of our region have registered their unwavering commitment to authentic democracy and the right to national self-determination with the victory of President-elect Xiomara Castro in Honduras,” states Jemima Pierre, coordinator of BAP’s Haiti/Americas committee.
The people of our region and the world remember the criminal assault on democracy that took place in Honduras in 2009 as one of the first acts of the newly elected Obama/Biden Administration. But with the election of Xiomara Castro, it is clear the coup stalled but did not reverse the momentum in Honduras for national independence, despite the death and systematic repression unleased on the population by the U.S. backed fascist regime.
“Just over the last two months, from Nicaragua to Venezuela and now Honduras, it is clear that the dogs of war and repression represented by the gringos from the North are unable to squash the spirit of the peoples of our region for People(s)-Centered Human Rights and national liberation. When we free Haiti and remove the illegal and immoral blockade against Cuba, the momentum for finally ejecting the U.S. and its antiquated fantasies of continued domination of our region and peoples will be unstoppable,” according to Ajamu Baraka, Black Alliance for Peace National Organizer.
BAP salutes the people of Honduras for this incredible victory and pledges to fight with them to protect their hard-won victory, a victory that is really a triumph for all of us.
"The Democratic Party wants war with Russia, the Trump administration wants war with China, so it's up to the people to demand and struggle for peace against both pro-imperialist war parties."
- Ajamu Baraka, National Organizer
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