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The Hello and welcome behind the news. My name is Doug Henwood. Heresy, apostasy even. Four guests today in

three segments. David Adler and Matt Kierkegaard, the Progressive International, will report in the

elections in Honduras. El Fadil Ibrahim will offer another view of the war in Sudan, and Eric Blanc will

talk about the relevance of Milwaukee's sewer socialism to politics today.

Honduras held elections last Sunday.

There were three major candidates, Rixie Moncada of the governing Libre Party.

Salvador Nasrallah conventionally described as center-right, and Nostri Asphura from the further right.

Asphura was the laggard until days before the election when he was endorsed

by Donald Trump in his typically crude and incomprehensible fashion. Almost simultaneously, Trump pardoned

the former president Juan Orlando Hernandez from Asphura's party, who was convicted of shipping 400 tons

of cocaine into the U.S. and about to begin a long prison sentence.

In Trump world, Venezuelans of unknown identity and intent in small boats deserve death

from the air, but right-wing major traffickers deserve freedom.

Suddenly, Asfura went from a dark horse to credible candidate.

As I'm preparing this show, the vote count is still incomplete, but Asfura

and Nasrallah were tied around 40% of peace, with the left candidate far behind. To review what's

been going on, we're joined by the behind-the-news roving election watch team David Adler and

Matt Kierkegaard, the Progressive International. They've done similar reports in this show about

Peru and Chile,

and also Honduras four years ago. David Adler and Matt Kirkagard. Let's review the,

my sports metaphors are terrible, so let's just talk about the three candidates. The lineup.

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