Originally posted on Vanguardia Estudiantil:
San Pedro Sula. Protestantes, en su mayoría simpatizantes de los partidos de oposición, han protestado durante varios días en el país centroamericano exigiendo la renuncia del presidente Juan Orlando Hernández. Las protestas y manifestaciones se han llevado a cabo en…
By Fulton Armstrong
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez. Photo Credit: Presidencia de la Republica del Ecuador / Flickr / Creative Commons
The decision last week by the Constitutional Chamber of the Honduran Supreme Court to legalize presidential reelection appears to have benefited a man – current President Juan Orlando Hernández – whose political fortunes got a shot in the arm from the 2009 coup that removed President Mel Zelaya for proposing a constitutional assembly to consider just such an action. A Liberal Party magistrate said he wanted to recant his vote the next day, but the ruling party published the decision in the Gaceta Oficial before he could. The Supreme Court, ruling in favor of petitions by former Nationalist President Rafael Callejas and several members of Hernández’s National Party, repealed two key articles of the Honduran Constitution, including one that says “the citizen who has served as the head of…
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