Christian singer faces leftist author in Costa Rica presidential runoff

[Judi Lynn]

FEBRUARY 5, 2018 / 1:39 AM / UPDATED 5 MINUTES AGO
Enrique Andres Pretel

SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Christian singer Fabricio Alvarado Munoz will face a centre-left fiction writer in Costa Rica’s presidential election runoff, seeking to thwart the advance of gay rights with a victory for evangelical conservatives in the Central American nation.

The former TV anchor won the first round on Sunday but fell far short the 40 percent of votes needed to avert a second-round. He will compete in the runoff on April 1 against former Labor Minister Carlos Alvarado Quesada, who was also once a singer - in a progressive rock band.

The rise of Alvarado Munoz on a ticket fiercely opposing gay marriage was helped by the decline of a centrist two-party system that stretched back decades in a country long considered one of the most stable in Latin America.

His success reflects the rise of evangelical churches in the region which Javier Corrales, a political science professor at Amherst College, says are helping to lead a coordinated backlash against the expansion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights.

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Christian singer Fabricio Alvarado Munoz

former Labor Minister Carlos Alvarado Quesada

[regnaD kciN]

1. "...the decline of a centrist two-party system..."

Costa Rica has, for a long time, been considered the hallmark of a stable, reasonable democracy in Central America. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the current breed of evangelical fundies, having done their best to destroy the U.S., are now attempting the same in the one country down there not (yet) scarred with a history of human-rights violations on a massive scale.

[Judi Lynn]

2. They have been spreading out, infesting the Americas. You may recall the dictator Efran Ros Montt,

who has slaughtered entire Mayan villages, burning to the ground, sending his troups to bludgeon, hack, rape, mow down all the inhabitants, sometimes burning them alive in their homes, bashing babies heads against trees, throwing some, still living into wells, slaughtering their farm animals, burning fields, etc., etc. was himself a fundie preacher, good friend to Jerry Falwell, and his confederates in the US, as well as best pals with Rornald Reagan.

They go all the way to Brazil, as well.

Simply horrifying to learn their poison and evil heartedness is seeping into the populations of the Americas who have formerly, one way or another, practised Catholicism.

As anyone can see they are not "winning" them as believers in the teachings of Christ, they are brain-washing them in consumerism, and the worship of materialism and the government system which puts corporations first, at the total expense of the very poor, the working class, the earth itself, the very animal life and plant life which make human life possible.

Grotesque, loathesome.

They will NOT win, in the end.

They are hated, and they are outnumbered, no matter how many deadly weapons of war and mass people control they have.

[GatoGordo]

3. Like Venezuela?

Hopefully, whatever the Ticos choose, it won't be anything close to the Marxist/Leninist fiasco that has previously infected Latin America.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Not every post here can be bent to serve the interests of the Venezuelan right-wing racists

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and their supporters among the US right-wing lunatic military power trippers.

Most people are very aware that the Democratic Party, except for the Southern Democratic racists who left to become Republicans during the Civil Rights struggle, has always been associated with the left wing.

You don't really get a lot of mileage with leftists with historical awareness upholding the imperialist zeal of the industrial/militarists who have seen the entire Western Hemisphere as the property of Washington D.C.

[GatoGordo]

5. Which right-wing racists?

The ones who want to feed the hungry?

The ones who want to get medicine to the sick and dying?

Or the ones who want free, open and transparent elections?



Which racists are you speaking of?