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WATCH: Manuel Zelaya presents LIBRE
Ex-President Manuel Zelaya hands over more than 80.000 signatures to The Electoral Board of Honduras as he announces the formation of LIBRE - Libertad y Refundación.
Elections in Honduras
Four years after the coup in Honduras, popular resistance against the regime continues. The National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) is determined to put an end to the corrupt two-party political system in Latin America’s most dysfunctional and violent state.
On November 24th 2013 Hondurans vote in general elections. A newly founded party, Freedom and Refoundation (Libertad y Refundación, LIBRE), which arose from the popular uprising and the FNRP, is leading in the polls. As elections approach the government is doing everything it can to crush all opposition; political repression becomes more brutal by the day. Since the coup more than 200 opposition leaders and 30 journalists have been assassinated. But the civilian resistance and LIBRE maintain their peaceful stance and continue to demand democracy in Honduras.
- Population: 8,448,465
- % of people living in poverty: 65%
- GDP per capita: $4,700
- Maternal mortality: 100/100,000
- Infant mortality: 19.28/1,000
- Life expectancy: 70
- The term banana republic was first used with reference to Honduras. The country is still dependent on the export of bananas and coffee, but exports have been diversified to include textiles, clothing and automobile wire harnessing.
- Nearly half of all Honduras’s economic activities are directly tied to the US. Exports to the US account for 30% of GDP and remittances from the US another 20%.
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