Trump backed Asfura leads Honduras
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Trump-backed Nasry Asfura led early presidential vote counts in Honduras, overtaking rivals as the left suffered heavy losses and opponents accused U.S. interference.
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Leavitt: "The people of Honduras have highlighted to him how the former President Hernandez was set up. This was a clear Biden over prosecution."
December 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Leavitt: "The people of Honduras have highlighted to him how the former President Hernandez was set up. This was a clear Biden over prosecution."
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President Trump's promise to pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, serving 45 years in U.S. prison for drug trafficking, is part of a "shocking" effort to interfere in Honduran politics, says Rodolfo Pastor with the ruling left-wing LIBRE party. "It's a blow to Honduran dignity and democracy."
December 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
President Trump's promise to pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, serving 45 years in U.S. prison for drug trafficking, is part of a "shocking" effort to interfere in Honduran politics, says Rodolfo Pastor with the ruling left-wing LIBRE party. "It's a blow to Honduran dignity and democracy."
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.
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
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December 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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.
#Trump releases the neoliberal former president of #Honduras from jail, at the same time as putting unjust pressure on the current election... Hondurans must be left alone to make their own choices. #democracy
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We are mobilizing to Honduras. Here is why.
The Progressive International Observatory is mobilizing to Honduras to stand with its people against foreign intervention.
progressive.international
November 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
#Trump releases the neoliberal former president of #Honduras from jail, at the same time as putting unjust pressure on the current election... Hondurans must be left alone to make their own choices. #democracy
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L’ingérence de Trump dans la campagne électorale au Honduras révèle ses contradictions en matière de lutte contre le narcotrafic
L’ingérence de Trump dans la campagne électorale au Honduras révèle ses contradictions en matière de lutte contre le narcotrafic
Le président américain a annoncé vouloir gracier l’ex-président hondurien Juan Orlando Hernandez, condamné aux Etats-Unis pour trafic de drogue, alors que des élections générales étaient organisées, dimanche, dans ce pays d’Amérique centrale.
www.lemonde.fr
December 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
L’ingérence de Trump dans la campagne électorale au Honduras révèle ses contradictions en matière de lutte contre le narcotrafic
While the BBC is pretty good you can’t just say 40% of votes have been counted. You need to know which areas? Urban or rural? (This is of course also true in the US.) Four hours later, the Reuters update says Asfura 40%, Nasralla 39.78%
with 56% votes counted. And that could change. (Libre at 19%.)
with 56% votes counted. And that could change. (Libre at 19%.)
Honduras election on a knife edge as Trump-backed man slightly ahead
The US president is threatening to cut aid to Honduras if his favoured right-wing presidential candidate does not win.
www.bbc.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
While the BBC is pretty good you can’t just say 40% of votes have been counted. You need to know which areas? Urban or rural? (This is of course also true in the US.) Four hours later, the Reuters update says Asfura 40%, Nasralla 39.78%
with 56% votes counted. And that could change. (Libre at 19%.)
with 56% votes counted. And that could change. (Libre at 19%.)
It looks like Libre is on the way to ceding the presidency to either the old Liberal party, reoriented around a former anti-corruption independent once allied with Libre, or the National party, disgraced by two successive narcotrafficking presidential families. Where votes have been counted matters.
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/
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
December 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
It looks like Libre is on the way to ceding the presidency to either the old Liberal party, reoriented around a former anti-corruption independent once allied with Libre, or the National party, disgraced by two successive narcotrafficking presidential families. Where votes have been counted matters.
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/
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
December 1, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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/
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.
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
December 1, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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.
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.
December 1, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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.
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...
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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
December 1, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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...
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...
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
December 1, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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...
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.
December 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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.
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.
December 1, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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.