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AP: Honduras leftist leader could present opportunities for US

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This week on CounterSpin: When Xiomara Castro won a historic victory in Honduras ([link removed]) last month—the country's first woman president, winning with the most votes in history, in a decisive rebuke to the many-years dominant National Party—Associated Press suggested ([link removed]) that while that might "present opportunities" for the US, "there will be some painful history to overcome, primarily the US government's initial sluggishness in calling the ouster of Castro's husband Manuel Zelaya in 2009 what it was"—a coup.

Well, huh. In September 2009, AP told ([link removed]) its readers that Honduras'

legislature ousted Zelaya after he formed an alliance with leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and tried to alter the nation’s constitution. Zelaya was arrested on orders of the Supreme Court on charges of treason for ignoring court orders against holding a referendum to extend his term. The Honduran constitution forbids a president from trying to obtain another term in office.

Beyond the implication that "forming an alliance" with a leftist leader is somehow illegal, a later AP report underscored ([link removed]) that “Zelaya was put on a plane by the military"—so OK, not the "legislature" anymore—"in June for trying to force a referendum to change the constitution’s limit of one term for presidents.” What's not funny ha ha but funny peculiar is that before the coup, AP had told ([link removed]) readers, accurately, that the referendum in question "has no legal effect: It merely asks people if they want to have a later vote on whether to convoke an assembly to rewrite the constitution.”

A dry-eyed observer would see AP's "editorial" position shifting along with, not facts on the ground, but US state rhetoric. Which brings us back to the present, and the idea that the US government, and their media megaphones, earnestly welcome a new leftist government in Honduras, and share their interest in lifting up the country's people. Let's just say: We'll see.

Suyapa Portillo Villeda is an advocate, organizer and associate professor ([link removed]) of Chicana/o–Latina/o transnational studies at Pitzer College, and author of Roots of Resistance ([link removed]) : A Story of Gender, Race and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras. She joins us this week to talk about the election, and signs of hard-won hope in Honduras.
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