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28 Nov, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Today Honduras has very important elections. Ever since a US-sponsored military coup in 2009, it has been run by a right-wing narco-dictatorship, which stole past elections.

But left-wing candidate Xiomara Castro and her Libre Party are leading in polls thegrayzone.com/2019/10/24/hon…
A poll last month showed the left-wing candidate in Honduras' election today, Xiomara Castro, leading by a whopping 17%

She had 38% support, against 21% for right-wing candidate Nasry Asfura, of the corrupt National Party of US-backed narco-president JOH
es.euronews.com/2021/10/28/pol…
Honduras hosts the largest US military base in Latin America

In the 1980s the US used this base to wage the Contra terror war on Nicaragua

After the 2009 right-wing coup (backed by the Obama-Biden admin), Honduras became a key US proxy to attack the left
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/20/max…
The election in Honduras today has crucial geopolitical implications: Central America is one of the very few regions of the world where countries recognize Taiwan. Left-wing candidate Xiomara Castro pledged to recognize China if she wins - angering the US
reuters.com/world/americas…
Because Honduras' left-wing candidate Xiomara Castro has vowed to recognize China, Taiwan has been not-so-subtly meddling to help the US-backed right-wing drug-traffickers in the National Party.

Honduras' election today is also part of the new cold war
As soon as voting started this morning in Honduras, the election has been a disaster. The website of the National Electoral Council (CNE) is down, so people don't know where to vote

The opposition is accusing the US-backed right-wing narco-regime of fraud
The US-backed Honduran regime is carrying out massive voter suppression today. The National Electoral Council website doesn't work, so many people don't know where to vote, and those who do have to wait in insanely long lines, with some being turned away

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29 Nov
An exit poll shows candidate Xiomara Castro of the leftist Libre Party winning the presidential election in Honduras today, with 11% more than the candidate of the right-wing National Party (the party of the US-backed coup regime)
Preliminary results from Honduras' National Electoral Council show leftist candidate Xiomara Castro winning by nearly 20%

There's still a lot left to count though, so now is time to be vigilant, because the US-backed coup regime stole the last 3 elections
Honduras' leftist presidential candidate Xiomara Castro is consistently leading by 19.4% in the official results from the National Electoral Council

(Although this is with only 38% of the vote counted, so there's a long way to go, and the regime may try to steal it again) Image
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24 Nov
More ridiculous fake news about North Korea. What's the "source"? You guessed it: Radio Free Asia, a US government propaganda weapon created by the CIA

Corporate media standards in reporting on the DPRK are nonexistent. They just make up nonsense and stenographers regurgitate it Image
Remember when major media outlets spread fake news claiming North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had died? Yeah, that was just last year.

The lie originated with a website funded by the US government’s regime-change arm the NED, like most of these fake stories
thegrayzone.com/2020/05/04/fak…
Even the New York Times has admitted that Radio Free Asia is part of a "worldwide propaganda network built by the CIA"
nytimes.com/1977/12/26/arc…
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24 Nov
Venezuela's socialist party won regional elections in a landslide, getting more votes in 20 of 23 states and the capital Caracas

So the US government responded by trying to discredit the vote—while reaffirming support for unelected coup puppet Juan Guaidó
thegrayzone.com/2021/11/23/ven…
The US supported negotiations in Mexico leading to Venezuela's opposition participating in elections

But because the socialists won, USA moved the goal posts and claimed it was rigged beforehand

USA will never accept Venezuela's election results until its right-wing puppets win
The hypocrisy is mind-blowing: The US government claims it supports "democracy" while rejecting Venezuela's free and fair elections (monitored by the EU), and simultaneously reaffirming support for coup leader Juan Guaidó, who has not received a single vote to be fake "president"
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22 Nov
Venezuela's ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV) won in a landslide in today's mega-elections, winning 20 of the 23 states.

The USA tried to crush the will of the Venezuelan people, suffocating them with a murderous blockade and brutal hybrid war. But Chavismo is alive and well!
The US-backed right-wing opposition participated in Venezuela's mega-elections today, after boycotting recent votes... and they were crushed.

The socialist alliance won 20 of 23 states and the capital Caracas.

#ArrasoElChavismo is trending, meaning: Chavismo won in a landslide
After competing in Venezuela's elections today and losing badly, it's likely the US-sponsored right-wing opposition will return to trying to delegitimize the elections, boycotting future ones, because they can't win them—while seeking more US intervention
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19 Nov
Nicaragua has officially left the US-controlled, coup-plotting Organization of American States (OAS), known in Latin America as the Ministry of Yankee Colonies.

Foreign Minister Denis Moncada called the OAS an "instrument of meddling" whose "mission is to facilitate US hegemony"
The US founded the OAS at the start of the first cold war as an alliance of right-wing regimes, including Somoza's dictatorship

The OAS orchestrated the fascist coup d'etat in Bolivia in 2019 and recognizes US puppet Guaidó as Venezuela's fake "president"
thegrayzone.com/2020/03/23/oas…
This is part of the letter the foreign ministry sent to the OAS: "Nicaragua has repeatedly expressed its condemnation and rejection of the interventionist actions of the OAS, defending its sovereignty"

We are not "a colony of any power," and the OAS is a US "colonialist entity" ImageImageImageImage
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1 Nov
Here is Nicaraguan Sandinista activist Ligia Sevilla @ligiasevilla_, who was censored by Facebook

@Meta falsely claimed she's a "fake account," part of a government-run "troll farm"

Will Facebook retract its false claims and restore her account?
@benimmo
@DavidAgranovich
@olgs7
This is another Nicaraguan Sandinista supporter, Daniela Cienfuegos @dani100sweet, an activist in the Red de Jóvenes Comunicadores, which Facebook/Instagram suspended and falsely claimed is a gov't bot farm.

Any comment from @Meta?
@benimmo
@DavidAgranovich
@ngleicher
@olgs7
And here is Nicaraguan Sandinista activist Franklin Ruiz G. @ElChequelito, whose personal account was censored by Facebook, which falsely claimed he is a government-run bot/troll.

Still no comment on this political censorship by
@Meta
@benimmo
@DavidAgranovich
@ngleicher
@olgs7
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