Reuters, now based in the US, reached the final stretch of the Honduran election with an extensive profile of favorite Xiomara Castro, who “gained prominence when her husband, Manuel Zelaya, was deposed in a military coup in 2009”.
She defends democratic socialism as “a solution to lifting Honduras out of the abyss”, while the party in power says that “voting for Xiomara is voting for communism, chaos, abortion”. Last week, in addition to the podium, the news was of the Cold War.
Xiomara wants to establish relations with China instead of Taiwan, but an anonymous “State Department official” warned that “the US wants the country to maintain relations with Taiwan” — most of the 15 countries that do are from America Central and Caribbean.
In response to the US, “war wolf” Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said “this bullying will not win hearts and minds.” But an adviser to Xiomara said later that no decision had yet been made.
In another small country, the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean, more “by proxy” confrontation. As highlighted by the New York Times to the Australian ABC, in 2019 the government established relations with China and now one of the islands, which continued to receive direct “help” from the USA and Taiwan, attacked the capital.
Burned down 15 residential buildings and 10 industrial buildings in Chinatown. Australia, an ally of the United States, sent “peace force” supposedly on request — which ABC do not confirm. Attacks on Chinese have sprung up elsewhere, from Congo to Pakistan.
ETHIOPIA ALSO
At the NYT, “two years after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize”, the Ethiopian prime minister “promises to lead troops against rebels” already close to the capital.
Other reports, collected by academic website The Conversation, show that the government has been suffering sanctions from the US, under the Trump and Biden governments. And that “growing anti-Americanism pushed Ethiopia into military and commercial ties with Russia.”
ROLE OF THE WOMAN
Highlighted by the Google News aggregator, the US Southern Command website reported the meeting of General Laura Richardson (above), commander of the forces aimed at Latin America, with the Pocket Minister Braga Netto. She came to discuss “continuous cooperation” with the Brazilian Armed Forces and the “role of women”.
LEAP IN EVOLUTION
Amid rising cases in Europe and the US, its headlines turned to the “alarm” with the “super strain” that “takes the delta’s place.”
“A leap in evolution,” says the NYT, noting that “cases have been detected in fully vaccinated people.”
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