This Week on GRadio
by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com
December 10, 2025
More than a week past the presidential elections in Honduras and the winner is still uncertain. One sure thing though is the further damage this poll has done to the country’s already fragile democratic bone fides. Starting with Donald Trump’s overt meddling, (and pardon-granting to former Honduran president and convicted drugs trafficker, Juan Orlando Hernández) through the technological election-night clown show, leading to the current national squabble over wide-spread vote-counting irregularities, determining electoral legitimacy at the end of all this will be the first, Herculean task of whomever takes over.
Karen Spring is the Honduras-based Coordinator for the Honduras Solidarity Network, who describe themselves as a, “… decentralized network of approximately 30 organizations from across Canada and the United States […] committed to demonstrating and advocating for solidarity with the Honduran social movement.” Spring is also the author of numerous articles and reports regarding human rights issues, of which she’s testified before Canadian Parliamentary committees. Her writing can be found at her website, aquiabajo.com.
Karen Spring in the first half.
And; the presidents of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo were in Washington last week. Paul Kagame and Felix Tshisekedi joined the American president to sign a “public pledge to end violence”. It’s been received in some quarters as a promise the generational conflict between neighbours that’s cost millions of - mostly Congolese - lives will end; but how far serial peace accord reneger Kagame can be trusted to work for a lasting peace this time around remains a question.
Judi Rever is a Montreal-based journalist and author. Her book, ‘In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front’ examines the Rwandan genocide of the last century and subsequent flourishing of its primary progenitor, Paul Kagame. We talked in February about her Canadian Dimension article, ‘Paul Kagame’s Foray in Eastern Congo Leaves Thousands Dead and Sparks Fears of a Broader War’; her latest there is, ‘No End in Sight to Rwanda’s War in Congo, Despite Peace Deal’.
Pre-order Judi Rever’s new book here.
Judi Rever and Donald Trump’s artful “peace deal” in Central Africa in the second half.
But first, Karen Spring and from fiasco to farce for Honduran’s presidential election.
Music: Ai Tsuno/David Rovics
Song: ‘Little Orange Toys’
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, on the internet at: GRadio.Substack.com.
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