{"id":38540,"date":"2013-11-27T10:37:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T17:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=38540"},"modified":"2013-11-27T10:37:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T17:37:20","slug":"right-wing-leader-claims-victory-in-honduras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/11\/27\/right-wing-leader-claims-victory-in-honduras\/","title":{"rendered":"Right Wing Leader Claims Victory in Honduras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20131127Uprising\/2013_11_27_honduras.mp3\">Listen to this segment<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20131127Uprising\/2013_11_27_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/xiomara_castro.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez, the head of the conservative National Ruling Party of Honduras has declared victory in Presidential elections held over the weekend. His lead, which has now been declared \u201cirreversible\u201d by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, has been disputed by his main rival, Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, the wife of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. <\/p>\n<p>Castro initially declared herself the winner even though early results showed her lagging behind Hern\u00e1ndez. Her supporters and her Libre party, have promised street protests in response to the election results. But so far there has been calm. Castro\u2019s campaign is being viewed as the strongest attempt so far by former President Zelaya to regain political power. <\/p>\n<p>Castro and Hern\u00e1ndez were neck-in-neck in polls leading up to the election, but, promising to do everything he could to handle the country\u2019s shocking rates of violence, Hern\u00e1ndez seems to have managed to move into the lead. Honduras last year experienced the highest per capita murder rate in the world, suffers from very high poverty, and has become a major flashpoint in Latin America\u2019s drug war. <\/p>\n<p>Hern\u00e1ndez faces growing disillusionment against his party as a result of outgoing president Porfirio Lobo\u2019s tenure being marked by the rise in violence and poverty. He also faces a divided Congress, also newly elected over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Suyapa Portillo, Assistant Professor of Chicano\/a-Latino\/a Transnational Studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez, the head of the conservative National Ruling Party of Honduras has declared victory in Presidential elections held over the weekend. His lead, which has now been declared \u201cirreversible\u201d by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, has been disputed by his main rival, Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, the wife of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Castro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38552,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38540\/revisions\/38552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}