HONDURAS appears to have delivered a hammer blow to US regional hegemony after left-wing presidential candidate Xiomara Castro declared victory today.
She promised to lead a government of reconciliation and strengthen direct democracy in the Central American country.
“There will be no more abuse of power in this country,” Ms Castro said, adding: “Today, the people have made justice. We have reversed authoritarianism.”
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG
From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance



