Honduras Elects a New Future-Part II

Episode Title: Honduras Elects a New Future Part II


Guest: Lucy Pagoada-Quesada who is a teacher, Coordinator of
D19-Libre, US-Canada and a co-host of Voices of Resistance
broadcasting on WBAI NYC Sundays at 1pm ET.


Hondurans saw Xiomara Castro sworn in as their country’s first
female president Thursday, January 27 amid a sea of waving
flags in the national stadium.


Castro blasted the departing administration for leaving her a
heavily indebted country where poverty and a lack of opportunity
have driven hundreds of thousands of Hondurans to migrate in
recent years.


“My government will not continue the vortex that has condemned
generations of young people to pay the debt taken on behind their
backs,” Castro said.


“We have the duty to restore the economic sector on the basis of
transparency, efficiency, production, social justice, wealth
distribution and national revenue,” she said.


High unemployment, persistent violence, corruption, and troubled
healthcare and educational systems are just some of the pressing
challenges inherited by the new government. But, the people have
liberated themselves from 12 years of US coup installed National
Party rule.


Lucy and I were both present at Castro’s inauguration last
Thursday and are thrilled to be having this conversation today.


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