Honduras' Zelaya could bounce back as wife runs for election
Honduras' Zelaya could bounce back as wife runs for election
Gustavo Palencia
Reuters
7:08 a.m. EDT, October 22, 2013
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Four years after the Honduran military ousted President Manuel Zelaya, forcing him out of bed at gunpoint and spiriting him out of the country in his pajamas, he may be set for a return to the presidential office - as first husband.
His wife, 54-year-old Xiomara Castro, is running neck-and-neck against the ruling party candidate in a tight race to lead the violent Central American country in next month's election.
Castro was catapulted into the spotlight after the 2009 coup when she led protests against the ouster, and she is now running on a toned-down version of her husband's leftist populism.
Many see Zelaya, whose removal triggered a deep political crisis, as the power behind Castro's candidacy. At rallies, supporters often cheer more for him than for his wife.
She promises to "re-found" Honduras, saying that a century of rule by traditional parties has hobbled the country, which now has the world's highest murder rate.
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She has seen in person the effects of the filthy right-wing elite sending the military into her house with guns blazing to violently kidnap her husband. She knows who's in this tiny group of murderous scums who intend to control Hunduras and the lives of everyone unlucky enough to have been born there, and too poor, or tied through bonds to their environment and unable to relocate.
Even while her husband was waiting to come back to his own country, and living within the Brazilian embassy, this woman had the courage to travel openly, hold meetings with the public, knowing fully the kind of murderous trash would be following her every step maybe for the rest of her life.
Your points are appropriate, well considered. God only knows how evil they are going to get with this lady, along with the filthy right-wing scum, and their supporters in U.S. covert operations. and the U.S. Congressional right-wing, people like the reeking excrement, former Senator Jim DeMint, and Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who showed up in Honduras within days of the dirty, illegal, military coup.
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"Rightists Doug Lamborn (R-CO), Peter Roskam (R-IL),
Jim DeMint (R-SC), coup frontman Roberto Micheletti,
& closet case Aaron Schock (R-IL)"
"She-Wolf" Cuban "exile" Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
with temporary coup president, Jim Micheletti.[/center]
