Rosemary Joyce
@rajoyce.bsky.social
Archaeologist, anthropologist, once upon a time blogger. Author “The Future of Nuclear Waste”, “Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives”, “Sites, Traces and Materiality”. Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Honorary PhD, Leiden Univ .. more
Archaeologist, anthropologist, once upon a time blogger. Author “The Future of Nuclear Waste”, “Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives”, “Sites, Traces and Materiality”. Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Honorary PhD, Leiden Univ
Rosemary A. Joyce is an American anthropologist and social archaeologist who has specialized in research in Honduras. She was able to archeologically confirm that chocolate was a byproduct of fermenting beer. She is also an expert in evaluating the archaeological records of society and the implications that sexuality and gender play in culture. .. more
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—Miguel Algarin, "Elections and . . . : second part (1985)"
although some go out and vote pretending
that the machinery is not fraudulent,
that Duarte doesn't repress,
not withstanding that it's written in every man's bible,
that in El Salvador Christ has not yet
freed his folk.
that the machinery is not fraudulent,
that Duarte doesn't repress,
not withstanding that it's written in every man's bible,
that in El Salvador Christ has not yet
freed his folk.
and it doesn't afflict the public in Chatatenango,
there aren't any guarantees
for the public to take hold of!
there aren't any guarantees
for the public to take hold of!
"People go out to vote
but the guerrillas obstruct them."
That's what's said on Channel 4 in Manhattan.
On the 28th of March we're made to understand
that Democracy is being obstructed
by the left, "the guerrillas
fire against the Salvadoran people,"
but that chaos was invented in the White House
but the guerrillas obstruct them."
That's what's said on Channel 4 in Manhattan.
On the 28th of March we're made to understand
that Democracy is being obstructed
by the left, "the guerrillas
fire against the Salvadoran people,"
but that chaos was invented in the White House
Thank you! I spent a decade putting my energy into blogging about contemporary Honduras when my day job didn’t recognize that as real research work. I truly appreciate how much work you’ve done here.
18/18 This controversy alone would make this election tense. And then the President of the US barged in with an endorsement and a wildly uninformed claim he will pardon JOH because he identifies with him as a former president convicted after leaving office. I’ll post again once we have some results.
Ahead of a tight presidential election, Honduras braces for controversy
The lead-up to Sunday's vote has been marred by finger-pointing and fears of election manipulation by campaign rivals.
www.aljazeera.com
17/ very late in the short campaign season, accusations of possible electoral manipulation by the body charged with election oversight burst into Honduran media. Libre reportedly is insisting the full count of paper ballots be completed before a winner is declared.
Poll Tracker: Honduras' 2025 Presidential Election
Voters will choose their next president November 30 in a single-round vote. Polls indicate a three-way race.
www.as-coa.org
16/ polls have showed a tight three way race. While polling gives Xiomara a 64% approval rating, voters continue to want better economic opportunities. Nasralla polled best in urban areas, Asfury in rural areas, while Libre had similar support in both sectors.
www.as-coa.org/articles/pol...
www.as-coa.org/articles/pol...
15/ In 2025, Nasralla is again running for president, now representing the old Liberal Party— whose vote share in 2021 sank to 10%. Libre, the party of the incumbent party, is running another female candidate, Rixi Moncada. The National Party ran their 2021 candidate Nasry Asfura again.
Libre ran a coalition candidacy, with Salvador Nasralla, the anti-corruption activist who had run independently in 2013 and with Castro in 2017 again on the ticket, now in reversed position with Castro leading the ticket. They received 51% of the vote, far beyond the National Party’s 37%.
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The upcoming SCOTUS cases over Trump's firing powers could change America
This latest iteration of a 250-year old debate goes much further than earlier generations would have thought possible — or advisable. And, for paid, subscribers: Closing my tabs.
www.lawdork.com
NEW: The upcoming SCOTUS cases over Trump's firing powers could change America.
This latest iteration of a 250-year old debate goes much further than earlier generations would have thought possible — or advisable.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
This latest iteration of a 250-year old debate goes much further than earlier generations would have thought possible — or advisable.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
13/ the US recognized the election, despite the many concerns raised, and JOH served an unprecedented second term. The opposition broke into two strands again, with Libre ultimately running Xiomara Castro in the next election— the third after the coup— in 2021. And this time fraud lost.
Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
Statistics and fraud
We now have two separate statistical analyses of Honduran presidential voting data, and both conclude the same thing: there was something fi...
hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com
12/ (my partner and I tracked the election and contributed to some of these analyses. We found major over voting in jurisdictions dominated by drug cartel-affiliated National Party local politicians).
hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/12/stat...
hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/12/stat...
11/ the 2017 election saw Libre make a strategic alliance with the anti-corruption movement that had received 13% of the vote in 2013. The final vote reported was extremely close: JOH at 42.95%, the Libre-led opposition alliance at 41.42%. Multiple analyses suggested systematic electoral fraud.
10/ Libre continued to organize to expand their share of the vote in the 2017 election. JOH shouldn’t have run again, as the Honduran constitution defined a single term as legal. JOH had controlled Supreme Court appointments as head of Congress, and in 2015 the court said he could run again.
9/ the candidate the US recognized as winning, with 37%, was Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH). The head of Congress during the Lobo years, JOH was implicated in massive fraud diverting social service funding to his campaign. His primary opponent claimed he committed fraud in the National Party primary.
8/ in the following presidential election, Libre ran the charismatic wife of the president removed by the coup, Xiomara Castro de Zelaya. The reported results showed a four way split with Libre in second place (at 29%). The Liberal party (at 20%) and an anti-corruption movement (at 13%) trailed her.
7/ Libre formed a coalition of indigenous, women’s, rural, and other activists seeking reform and protection of human rights, advocating for a renewal of politics that rejected the two old dominant parties. The Liberals who shifted were the most progressive, leaving the Liberal party an empty hull.
6/ during Lobo’s administration, the former president, kidnapped and flown out of the country during the 2009 coup, returned, and joined a range of politicians and activists forming a new political party, called Libre (Free). Many Liberal Party politicians left their coup-tainted party for Libre.
Fabio Lobo: Juan Orlando Was “the Brains” behind Hernández Family Drug Trafficking
elfaro.net
5/ Lobo himself escaped prosecution but other family members were not so lucky: his son ended up the target of a US drug enforcement operation. He became a key witness against his father’s successor in office during his trial for drug offenses.
elfaro.net/en/202402/ce...
elfaro.net/en/202402/ce...
4/ 2009 was a presidential election year and despite the coup regime suppressing public protest (including roughing up a presidential candidate!) the US supported the election that was held and recognized the National party’s Pepe (Porfirio) Lobo. During his admin drug trafficking took off.
3/ the 2009 coup saw a Liberal party head of Congress conspire to remove the Liberal party president who had developed a much more progressive social agenda than his origins in the logging and cattle ranching traditional Honduran elite would have predicted. A longer story about why for another time.
2/ Honduras is a multi-party country and so elections have a raft of candidates. But until the 2009 coup, two major parties tossed the presidency back and forth: the Liberal and National parties. Both pro-business, Liberals more socially progressive, Nationalists more law and order.
Honduras election: Polls open in vote shadowed by Trump aid threats
The US president is threatening to cut aid to Honduras if his favoured right-wing presidential candidate does not win.
www.bbc.com
From 2009 through the previous election, I co-ran a blog dedicated to explaining Honduran culture and politics to people unfamiliar with its recent and deeper history. The erosion of available media and the shift away from blogs means this year, we are watching and wondering how things will go. 1/
Prospera Honduras is a Zone for Employment & Economic Development (ZEDE) backed by Peter Thiel. Trump plans to pardon the former Honduran president who championed ZEDES b4 his drug trafficking conviction. Honduras current outgoing president has tried to eliminate ZEDES, an obstacle for Prospera.
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Prospera: Honduras' Bitcoin City Project
Prospera is Honduras' Bitcoin City project. Located on the island of Roatan in the Caribbean Sea, it faces several challenges.
colombiaone.com
Links between the radical right in this country and the corrupt regime of the former President of Honduras, a convicted narcotrafficker, are clear. Most US media hasn’t laid them out; this thread absolutely does the job. Today was the Honduran election for Xiomara Castro’s successor. I’m worried.
Toilets have often been used as a weapon to make it difficult for women to participate in science. This was Lise Meitner's experience in 1907. (From Wikipedia) #WomenInSTEM 🧪
![The arrangement was difficult for Meitner at first. Women were not yet admitted to universities in the German state of the Kingdom of Prussia, which included Berlin. Meitner was allowed to work in the wood shop, which had its own external entrance, but she could not enter the rest of the institute, including Hahn's laboratory space upstairs. If she wanted to go to the toilet, she had to use one at the restaurant down the street. The following year, women were admitted to Prussian universities, and Fischer lifted the restrictions, and had women's toilets installed in the building. Not all the chemists were happy about this.[27] The Institute of Physics was more accepting, and she became friends with the physicists there,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d33ov6qj5n2yhs27nyvpkpt2/bafkreid7qqgtnz4icdy5gotc6xac4z6cy734fpp6lcw2c7dxqewt6g4p2q@jpeg)
Thread. The number of women scientists who have these stories is a generational trauma. Then the world did it all over again to trans students.
Irrespective of whether one has a valid complaint or not, emailing the governor of the state, the university president, and an anti-union organization before initiating any of the standard appeal measures available to students following a grade one disputes is a very strange move.
If indeed you are there to achieve a grade (learning was clearly not on the agenda). But if your goal was to create a scene?