Hondurans burn effigies of politicos to close the book on 2021
Online News Editor
December 30, 2021
Tegucigalpa, Dec 30 (EFE).- Elaborate effigies of outgoing two-term President Juan Orlando Hernandez and other unpopular politicians will be burned at midnight on Dec. 31 in what has become a year-end tradition in Honduras.
“Allow me to say that it’s a way to express toward them the bad feelings of everyone for all the negative actions they take against the people,” upholsterer Luis Lagos tells Efe outside his workshop on the south side of Tegucigalpa.
For 18 years, Lagos has been one of the many artisans across Honduras who donate their time to create the effigies.
Besides Hernandez, the politicians selected “with all respect” to be sacrificed symbolically as 2021 draws to a close are congressional speaker Mauricio Oliva and Tegucigalpa Mayor Nasry “Tito” Asfura, who declined to seek a fourth term in favor of what would turn out to be failed bid for the presidency.
“It seems that they achieve power to aggrandize themselves, to enrich themselves and carry out so many atrocities,” Lagos says of politicians.
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