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Jan 23 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
With skulduggery Congress ratifies the provisional leadership with legislator Jorge Calix as president. Calix promised to support Xiomara Castro's agenda, despite split with Libre Party. #Honduras
Last night, Congress called for a session at 7 am in the legislature, but this morning a second call was put out for a session outside Tegucigalpa at 8:20 am, which began minutes later. Legislators who planned to vote for Luis Redondo were trapped in Tegucigalpa.
Legislators who planned to vote for Calix, including dissident Libre, National Party & Liberal Yanistas appeared at the secret location & proceeded to vote, electing Calix. Those stuck in Tegucigalpa then held vote & elected Redondo, but were far short of a majority.

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1/The battle for control of Congress in Honduras has devolved into complete chaos after a group of 20 legislators from Libre split from the party line & joined with the National Party and Yanistas of the Liberal Party to elect the provisional leadership of Congress.
2/Prior to the election, Libre made a pact with Salvador Nasralla’s PSH party that would concede the presidency of Congress to PSH regardless of how many seats each party won. The math was always difficult, with 65 votes needed for a majority.
3/Libre won 50 seats, PSH 10 and there were 4 dissident Liberals who had supported Xiomara Castro’s candidacy instead of their own party’s candidate. In the best-case scenario, they needed to find one more vote to honor the pact and elect the leadership of Congress.
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1/ Podría la integración de Juan Orlando Hernández como diputado al PARLACEN protegerlo de una posible extradición a los Estados Unidos? Es complicado.
2/Ante la ley de los Estados Unidos, la integración al PARLACEN no le concede a nadie ninguna inmunidad. Un diputado del PARLACEN no es un diplomático acreditado por el Departamento de Estado, aunque tenga un pasaporte diplomático de su país.
3/Miremos el caso del expresidente de Panama, Ricardo Martinelli. Él fue arrestado en Florida en 2017 siendo diputado del PARLACEN y posteriormente extraditado hacia Panama para enfrentar cargos de corrupción. reuters.com/article/eeuu-p…
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Mi último: Contador testifica sobre reuniones entre presunto narco Geovanny Fuentes y el presidente de Honduras uni.vi/rhUZ102BBDu via @UniNoticias
Según el testigo, JOH le dijo al alcalde de Choloma Crivelli que "los hondureños son pendejos, con una cerveza y una carnita te dan su voto" durante una reunión en la oficina de Jarufe.
En otra reunión entre JOH y Jarfue, JOH habló de como estaban robando del estado, incluso del seguro social.y dijo que "Estamos robando mejor que en los tiempos de Callejas."
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El testimonio del contador ha iniciado en el juicio de Geovanny Fuentes Ramírez. Hasta el momento ha relatado que conoció a Fuentes en la arrocera dónde trabajaba y Fuentes llegaba 2 o 3 veces al mes con dólares para cambiarlo a lempiras con cheque de la empresa.
El contador dijo que escuchó a Fuentes hablando por teléfono con alguien y dijo que "pronto se levantaría porque iba a empezar a trabajar con los Cachiros."
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1/Honduras holds its primary elections today, the results of which are not expected for days. The vote comes at a tumultuous time, as a number of the candidates have been mentioned over the past week in a NY drug trafficking case. Here’s what’s at stake:
2/Besides deciding upon candidates, the parties participating in the vote want to show strength. In 2017, voter participation was down overall, but the National Party (PN), somewhat miraculously, jumped 20% despite not having a contentious primary.
3/The ruling PN is the most disciplined, well-oiled & financed machine and has the largest “voto duro,” or loyal vote. Part of that is due to hundreds of thousands of public employees whose jobs depend on the party’s continuance. Unchecked clientelism is another factor.
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1/El Cachito Devis Rivera fue llamado a testificar. Según el, conoció a Geovanny Fuentes a través de Melvin Sandres, alias Metro, el apodo que le dieron porque "solo pasaba con la policía metropolitana de Honduras."
2/Devis dijo que Metro era un asesino que también ayudaba a proteger y recibir cargamentos de cocaína. Metro le dijo que su amigo Geovanny Fuentes "había estado trabajando en Miami vendiendo drogas y que tenía varios contactos de la policía militar y policía preventiva."
3/Devis conoció a Metro por medio de su primo, el ex policía Rubén Santos alrededor de 2003. Después del almuerzo sigue el testimonio de Devis.
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