Three months before the general elections in Honduras, a climate of tension marked by media attacks, leaks, and smear campaigns is trying to discourage the vote and disqualify candidates. Our colleague Karim Duarte brings us the details.
00:00Three months before the general elections in Honduras, a climate of tension marked by media attacks, leaks and smear campaign, is trying to discourage the vote and disqualify candidates.
00:10Our colleague Karim Duarte brings us the details.
00:12The country is facing a series of media attacks, based on the leaking of audios, videos and photographs, motivated by dirty electoral campaigns, that only seek to discredit political candidates at all costs, and generate uncertainty.
00:29The current situation is generating a lot of uncertainty.
00:36The various scenarios that we are seeing every day, unfortunately all of them are negative, are giving us the path that the people of Honduras want.
00:53What we and the majority of the people of this country want transparent and clean elections.
00:58This guarantees our democracy, guarantees the peace we are enjoying.
01:03In the middle of the cross accusations, the National Party criticizes the ruling party for the alleged use of its collectives to exert political pressure.
01:20However, the National Party itself is carrying out a strong offensive based on the dissemination of false news that polarizes even more the electoral scenario.
01:29It is obvious that if one is not afraid, one would not have to resort to violence, one would not have to resort to their collectives, one would not have to be afraid of electoral processes aimed at their verification and modernization.
01:47In this context, experts advise presidential candidates to prepare for the debates and use digital platforms strategically and responsibly.
01:59We have a lot of information. Young people have an incredible, incredible immediacy of information, and they have become very aware of the value or the positions that any presidential candidate may take in this race.
02:15Look well that not only in the television debate, a presidential debate can be carried out.
02:28There are thousands of technological ways in which the candidates can promote their different positions and their goals to be achieved in the period that they will govern. Elections, people voting.
02:38A few months before the elections, analysts warn that dirty campaigns and media attacks could increase, affecting the credibility of the process and weakening citizen participation at the polls.
03:00For TELESUR, from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Karim Duarte.
