When it rains, it pours:
First, Protesters Block Roads, Clash With Police in Honduras.
About 200 Cobras gathered at the police headquarters and announced they were no longer willing to confront protesters, arguing that it amounted to “taking sides” in the political battle between Mr Nasralla and President Hernández.
“We are rebelling. We call on all the police nationally to act with their conscience,” one masked officer told Reuters news agency.
There’s a recount in the works.
Meanwhile, Eric Conn got nabbed. Who? Honduran authorities have captured a fugitive US lawyer who was on America’s most wanted list.
Eric Conn fled from the US six months ago after pleading guilty to stealing $600m (£450m) by filing bogus disability claims.
UPDATE
Hissy fit n foreign press about electronic fail n Honduras. Baloney. All sides signed a doc that final results req reviewng physical “actas”. N all had reps at the tables and copies of signed “actas.”
Nasralla offered path 2 challenge. Refuses. For press doesn’t mention this.— MaryAnastasiaO'Grady (@MaryAnastasiaOG) December 5, 2017
Nothing seems to change south of the border. It boggles the mind. I spent the better part of the 70’s in Central America. There is no way you would have convinced me then that there would be so little institutional change since. It’s almost as if Latin Americans have some fatal civilizational flaw built into their DNA planted by the original Conquistadors.
I understand exactly what you’re saying, Patrick.
After 14 years of blogging about the hemisphere, I’m ready to start using stories from a dozen years ago and change the names (or not, in some instances – like Nicaragua), after altering the dates to read “2017” or whatever.
It’s the same thing over and over.
They are incapable of learning.