D-2 before the general elections in Honduras. The country must notably replace its president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, re-elected in 2017 on charges of electoral fraud. Several organizations, such as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, call for elections “Peaceful and transparent », Note El Heraldo in One, in a context “Tense and polarized “. Great violence punctuated the countryside of this poor Central American country, ” several candidates have died in recent weeks “. Since the announcement of the primaries in September 2020, the UN has recorded 63 cases of political violence, 29 assassinations, 14 attacks 12 assaults as well as one kidnapping. ” No election is worth the loss of a human life », Also declared the head of the Mission of Election Observation of the European Union.
Violence fueled by social networks, if we are to believe the Disinformation Observatory, cited by Once Noticias. The latter has noted over the past two months 400 daily messages of disinformation conveyed by 180 Facebook profiles. This is probably only the top of the iceberg, believes the Honduran media outlet, which has noted a spike in disinformation in recent days, with the impersonation of famous media accounts and journalists.
What vote for the diaspora?
The Honduran press returns this Friday to the profile of voters. In this country of nearly 10 million inhabitants, four out of ten voters are under 30, writes La Prensa. The youth vote could therefore be decisive, according to the newspaper, even if the latter are rather disillusioned. A young woman, who is about to vote for the first time, wonders if it will be of any use, faced with the phenomenon of vote buying in her country.
Many Hondurans flee their country for economic reasons or to escape the maras, drug trafficking gangs whose activity has a heavy impact on their daily lives. Thousands of people leave each year within caravans to try to seek asylum in neighboring countries. However, only some 15,000 Hondurans living abroad will be eligible to vote on Sunday, notes La Prensa. Election cases were sent to 15 cities in the United States, two in Canada and two in Mexico. Six countries in Central America and the Dominican Republic will also hold a vote for Hondurans living abroad.
Nayib Bukele, king of bitcoin
In neighboring El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele continues to surf bitcoin. We remember the announcement with great fanfare this week of a Bitcoin City, “ a kind of special economic zone, with tax advantages for investors “, abstract El Faro. But the independent media writes that most importantly in this story, “ behind the smoke and the lights “Is that the Salvadoran president plans to” look for an alternative to the traditional monetary system to obtain financing “. The media emphasizes ” issuance of a billion dollar bitcoin bond ”, Ie an envelope similar to the amount that the government negotiated with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This alternative involves a network of domiciled companies ” in countries such as the British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan and Gibraltar “.
Thanksgiving, feast day or day of mourning?
On Thursday, Americans celebrated the legendary holiday of the United States, Thanksgiving. It is the 400th anniversary of the gathering of 1621, when the pilgrims “ broke bread with the Wampanoag tribe “. ” But this first gathering, which later became the Federal Thanksgiving holiday, was also preceded and followed by years of illness brought by foreign settlers and years of brutal violence between Europeans and indigenous peoples ”, tell the Daily Press. On Thursday in Plymouth, Massachusetts, members of Native American tribes gathered to ” mourn the indigenous peoples of the world who have suffered from centuries of racism and abuse ”, indicates the local channel WSAZ.
the Daily Press asked residents of the Morongo Reservation in Southern California what they thought of Thanksgiving today. ” After 400 years, our people are still grappling with the truth ”, answers one of them. He suggests that every American thinks about the true Thanksgiving legacy. Before adding this nuance: ” Today’s Indians, we are walking miracles (…). We survived a state-sponsored genocide. (…) So if today I’m sitting in front of a big TV screen, watching football and eating turkey, in the end, maybe that’s the symbol of ultimate success here in America “.