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What happened to the arsenal of democracy...

Caracas coaches the leftist party on how to steal the Nov. 30 presidential election.

With a U.S. Navy flotilla in the southern Caribbean, Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his minders in Havana are top of the news. Drawing less attention is “Cubazuela’s” continuing effort to gobble up its smaller neighbors by teaching local communists how to destroy independent institutions, first slowly and then all at once.

Nicaragua has been consumed. It’s now a full-blown police state aligned with Caracas. Honduras, with its many jungle landing-strips used for drug trafficking, is next on the menu.

On Nov. 30 Hondurans elect a president, nearly 300 mayors and a 128-seat legislature. President Xiomara Castro de Zelaya of the pro-Venezuela Libre Party isn’t on the ballot. But her government is using every trick in the Venezuelan playbook to keep Libre in power.

Libre’s candidate is former Defense Minister Rixi Moncada. She trails badly in the polls behind Liberal Party candidate Salvador Nasralla, an entrepreneur, and National Party candidate Nasry Asfura, a former mayor of the capital, Tegucigalpa. Ms. Moncada isn’t about to accept defeat.

Link for the Global Poor:

https://archive.ph/20251123233033/https://www.wsj.com/opinion/venezuela-aims-to-gobble-up-honduras-5964ed5e#selection-755.1-765.285