Image is of Rixi Moncada of the LIBRE Party voting in the election.
On November 30th, Hondurans voted to choose their next President, as well as deputies to the Congress, councillors, and other candidates. Like all elections in Latin America, the looming shadow of American intervention will be a major factor in deciding the winner. In this election, that intervention has been fairly naked, with Trump literally stating who he wishes to win (the far-right nationalist guy, Nasry Asfura). Asfura has said that if he does not win, American funding to the country will dry up - a clear threat - and Trump has additionally pardoned the former Honduran president and US ally Juan Orlando Hernández, imprisoned for smuggling cocaine into the US.
The other candidates in this election are Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party, who is essentially running on the same platform as Asfura with some differences (such differences would inevitably vanish if he were to win); and Rixi Moncada of the progressive (self-described as democratic socialist) LIBRE Party. The narrative about this election is - try not to yawn - the neverending battle of democracy against communism. This narrative is obviously very important to uphold in the current environment of accelerated aggression against Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, and others.
Who is going to win? As of me writing this sentence, the results have not yet been fully reported. However, there has been something of a scandal in regards to a plot - with recorded voices, though those guilty plead AI tampering - to show the best possible preliminary results for the right wing, so as to manipulate the narrative and morale of the population. The idea, is presumably, that if LIBRE were to win, the fascists could say "How did LIBRE go from 20% of the vote (which is what the preliminary results showed) to a victory?! It must be communist meddling!"
Of course, it's entirely possible that LIBRE won't win anyway, or get particularly close. We shall see how things turn out very shortly.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Maduro is still making public appearances right now and it has my anxiety quite high. Why's he so confident that he won't get bombed or shot? He shouldn't be out right now he should be doing Assad's old routine that kept him alive so long.
He has Fidel's vest.
I actually think a big public setting is one of the safest places to be. Blowing up a massive rally covered in video cameras is not a strategically sound move for the US.
Maduros about to be the first president to set up a 24/7 livestream on twitch
Madurothon with Kai Cenat
This is an amazing bit and my day is so much better now that I learned this, holy shit
Iirc, some days before the 2002 military coup, Chavez appeared on TV wearing a soccer/football referee shirt and he would call the name of rich Venezuelans or Americans, and fire them live on tv by showing a red card (to expel someone from the game).
What a guy, that's amazing. Thanks for sharing!
Possibly the pinnacle of entertainment
They don't need to blow up a rally they have missiles that can make mincemeat (literally) of singular vehicles.
https://youtu.be/WjQCnsmqYKI
The R9X Hellfire is a missile filled with swords that has been used to do extremely precise single-target attacks. They absolutely do not need to blow up a whole rally of people to get him.
They're probably not going to hit Maduro with the knife missile during a public rally. It would be the worst possible way to kill him and achieve none of their objectives while making him an incredibly powerful martyr.
Yeah you're right. The best strategy for Maduro is to remain in the public eye at this point in time. It makes it look as if the US is bluffing, and the US is not going to kill him or kidnap him on public TV.
It also demonstrates bravery to the people, shores up the popularity of the Bolivarian Revolution, and allows Maduro to lead more effectively by remaining close to the people.
Yeah it also looks bad domestically if your nations leader goes into hiding before the first bombs have even dropped.
Maybe so, but still best not to give the temptation
still insane to me that "missile filled with swords" is the pinnacle of precision guided weapons
Should be noted that the Hellfire has an operational range of around 11km so the launch vehicle would need to be well within Venezuelan detection range to fire on Caracas.
So considering the two launch options:
I doubt they'd be able to shoot down a B-2 or F-35, but there's definitely a chance they'd detect one within Venezuelan airspace with the VHF radars around the capital.
If smuggled over land for launch by opposition groups, then maybe they could get the killl. Then again, this implies a security collapse much worse than we've seen thus far.
The US definitely prefers the prospect of an domestic assassin, which provides much better optics and propaganda opportunities than their Yemeni PM execution.
The US has a stealth version of the MQ-9 Reaper, called the MQ-20 Avenger/Predator C, with an internal weapons bay, S ducted engine inlet, and dispersed exhaust.
I highly doubt they'll use it for a public assassination though. The optics of publicly assasinating world leaders on live TV are horrible.
After Iran, which has more toys, I'm convinced they can hit anywhere in Venezuela.
How many generals did Israel kill in the first hour?
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Do you imagine the kind of major fucking insurrection (I'm out of better adjectives in English lol) that would unfold if he got shot in public at a time like this?
They would give a martyr to the Venezuelan people larger than Chavez himself.
Is there a strong enough opposition in Venezuela to seize power if that happened? I would imagine a big public assassination would only make him into a martyr.
No, they're all in Miami or Panama, they only have a few Mercenaries/Commandos inside Venezuela. Besides, if Maduro dies, he'll be replace by Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, who, just like Maduro, was a foreign policy minister before becoming Vice-President. She currently also helds a lot of influence within the Venezuelan Inteligency organizations, specially the SEBIN (Venezuela's FBI). I guess she's a bit like Andropov.
Yes, just like what happened with Chavez.
I hope he has body doubles