Silvio Carrillo’s editorial “America’s Blind Eye to Honduras’s Tyrant,” reveals personal viewpoints on the controversies surrounding Juan Orlando Hernandez’s presidential victory in Honduras. Through different styles of pathos, direct tones, and sentence/paragraph structures, Carrillo expresses his repugnance against Hernandez’s rule and his discontent in America’s non-action against their leader’s regime. A foremost idea voiced in this editorial is the wide-spread corruption surrounding Hernández’s regime. Initially, Carrillo states the problems with Hernández’s rule: “The list is long: widely documented corruption, illegal changes to the constitution, documented ties to drug traffickers, attacks on a free press, criminalization of peaceful protests, repeated violations of human rights by security …show more content…
Every part is an appeal towards pathos, as it spurs a response of outrage, disappointment, and pity from the reader. Thus, it allows Carrillo’s message about Hernández’s regime to stick further in the reader’s minds, perhaps encouraging their own opinions against him. Still, none of these issues should be overlooked, as they attack key principles of society and individual freedoms. Moreover, another way Carrillo shows how corrupt this election and regime is to him is through his explanation of the votes and protests. “The electoral commission, composed predominantly of supporters of Mr. Hernández, suspended announcements about the count for serval hours. When its updates resumed, the president was in the lead, setting off deep suspicions of electoral fraud…Mr. Hernández and his security minister, Julian Pacheco, who reportedly has strong ties to drug trafficking, quickly fired