Honduras Culture and Politics

Testimony at Tony Hernandez's trial today included testimony from El Rojo who said he helped Tony move 140 tons of cocaine through Honduras.  We don't know if those are metric tons or english to...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2019/10/tony-hernandez-trial-day-2-some-basic.html

The trial of Juan Antonio Hernandez Alvarado, aka "Tony" Hernandez, former Honduran Congress person and brother of the sitting President, Juan Orlando Hernandez Alvarado began today in a Federal ...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2019/10/trial-of-tony-hernandez-day-1.html

On the third anniversary of Berta Cáceres' murder, MACCIH and the UFECIC-MP (Unidad Fiscal Especial Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad del Ministerio Publico) announced new legal cases again...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2019/03/desa-fraud-and-corruption.html

Lest we think that all is well in the Honduran Congress as a deliberative body, recent news reports in Honduras document widespread corruption in the Honduran Congress; everything from the way mo...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2018/01/congressional-corruption-part-1.html

The new Police Chief of Honduras's National Police, José David Aguilar Moran, aided Wilter Blanco in moving cocaine from Honduras to the United States, the AP reported this morning. Jose Davi...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2018/01/new-police-chief-tied-to-wilter-blanco.html

General Rene Orlando Ponce Fonseca, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Honduran Armed Forces, sees Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, and Salvadorans protesting in Honduras; but not Hondurans.  I s...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2018/01/ponce-fonseca-gang-and-foreigners-are.html

While the OAS has not recognized the outcome of the presidential election, Juan Orlando Hernández is proceeding as if the election is settled. Meanwhile, media and political observers from outsi...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/12/party-politics-in-honduras-post-2017.html

The Italian newspaper, L'Espresso, reported yesterday that the Pope is investigating charges of corruption, both moral and financial, against Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodriguez Maradiaga and a clo...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/12/pope-to-investigate-honduran-church.html

The tweet from @Codigo504 is the kind of mordant humor I think of as typically Honduran: > Después del informe de OEA y el tuitazo de Almagro los cachurecos > deben calcular bien...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/12/dictatorship-ghost-that-haunts-re.html

We now have two separate statistical analyses of Honduran presidential voting data, and both conclude the same thing: there was something fishy that happened in the middle of vote counting. To ...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/12/statistics-and-fraud.html

Today witnessed a series of press conferences in the contested Honduran election. Shortly after the OAS Mission said it would be making a statement late today, the Tribunal Supremo Electoral an...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/12/oas-calls-for-new-elections-in-honduras.html

Amidst allegations of voting fraud, the Honduran Tribunal Supremo Electoral does itself no favors with its incapacity to explain what it does. For many outside observers, it may be worth reiterat...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/12/processing-acta-rules-and-procedures.html

Thanks to the incredible people over at the Voto Social we now have another anomaly related to the Actas, that the timestamps added by the ATX system when it scanned the actas have been systema...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/12/more-audit-irregularities.html

This is an update to the previous post based on a memo issued by the Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE)  (not Audisis) on the crash of the TSE servers on November 29.  This update is a result of ...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/12/auditing-update.html

Auditoría Integral y Seguridad de Sistemas de Información (Audisis),the Colombian firm hired by the TSE on November 13 to audit the election results for the November 26th election, has released...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/12/auditing-failed-election.html

Our headline may seem to juxtapose three unrelated things. But we think they have to be seen together. And actually, there's one more thing... and it's a doozy. To recap where the process stand...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/12/analyses-support-doubts-about-vote-and.html

Juan Orlando Hernandez declared a curfew and suspended some constitutional rights of Hondurans yesterday in response to protests against the way his party is stealing the election. The first p...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/12/government-curfew-and-suspension-of.html

 UPDATED to add Santa Barbara and Cortes to list of departments where votes held for "monitoreo" favored the Alianza; and to note that the TSE has said it will count all votes, something we are ...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/11/controversy-about-votes-being-monitored.html

Yesterday the Tribunal Supremo Electoral said it would make an announcement of final vote count at 3 AM local time Thursday. One assumes that was a projection based on the pace of counting, not...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/11/yesterday-tribunal-supremo-electoral.html

¿COMO? ¿QUIENES LES GANAMOS, A QUIENES, PORQUE Y PARA QUE?  HOW? WHO WON, OVER WHOM, WHY AND WHAT FOR?                                            ...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/11/rodolfo-pastor-fasquelle-on-election.html

The presence/absence of drug cartels in certain communities radically corrupted the reported votes in the 2013 election. These were areas that overwhelmingly supported Juan Orlando Hernández in ...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/11/how-cartels-affected-vote-2013-and-2017.html

At 4:17, a tweet from TSE head David Matamoros caused a slight ripple of concern; he said "There are still 7500 summaries of polling places to scrutinize, that represent some 2 million votes": >...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/11/new-numbers-quietly-added-to-tse-website.html

Honduras' Proceso Digital has a story today based on an interview with a member of the Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE), Marco Ramiro Lobo. The headline says it all: "La tendencia presidencial s...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/11/what-may-be-coming-in-honduran-election.html

It took them until almost 2 in the morning in Honduras, but finally, the TSE has made an official statement. Not calling the election: they will continue to count votes until they are finished....

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-tse-reports-alianza-is-in-lead.html

Alianza candidate Salvador Nasralla just held a press conference in which-- drawing on data that parties receive from the TSE-- 78% of the actas (reports of votes from individual districts) have ...

http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/11/with-78-of-vote-counted.html