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Thought this was a pretty good primer on the Honduran election.
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Explainer: Honduras' 2025 General Elections
Fears of electoral fraud and voter concerns about jobs and insecurity loom over a three-way contest for the presidency.
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Did not know Nasrallah saw Bukele favorably. That’s too cozy with authoritarianism for me.
Trump wants Nasry Asfura as his truth social babbling indicate. “Trump also announced granting a pardon to Hernandez. He said, “Additionally, I will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that I greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly.” Hernandez was convicted of drug trafficking charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison by a US court last year.
The US president further stated, “This cannot be allowed to happen, especially now, after Tito Asfura wins the Election, when Honduras will be on its way to Great Political and Financial Success. VOTE FOR TITO ASFURA FOR PRESIDENT, AND CONGRATULATIONS TO JUAN ORLANDO HERNANDEZ ON YOUR UPCOMING PARDON. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE HONDURAS GREAT AGAIN!” Is Trump interfering in Honduran elections? Ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez pardoned, Tito Asfura receives BIG backing
That really only leaves one option…Moncada of the Zelaya/Castro clique as a desirable winner.
Not sure just how much crookedness Trump is prepared to engage in over this election nor to what degree his pardoning of the coke dealing former president will go to signal that.
Trump wants Nasry Asfura as his truth social babbling indicate. “Trump also announced granting a pardon to Hernandez. He said, “Additionally, I will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that I greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly.” Hernandez was convicted of drug trafficking charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison by a US court last year.
The US president further stated, “This cannot be allowed to happen, especially now, after Tito Asfura wins the Election, when Honduras will be on its way to Great Political and Financial Success. VOTE FOR TITO ASFURA FOR PRESIDENT, AND CONGRATULATIONS TO JUAN ORLANDO HERNANDEZ ON YOUR UPCOMING PARDON. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE HONDURAS GREAT AGAIN!” Is Trump interfering in Honduran elections? Ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez pardoned, Tito Asfura receives BIG backing
That really only leaves one option…Moncada of the Zelaya/Castro clique as a desirable winner.
Not sure just how much crookedness Trump is prepared to engage in over this election nor to what degree his pardoning of the coke dealing former president will go to signal that.
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Little Narco Rubio must have signed off on this. Make Honduras Great Again? The new imperialism, intervention by sheer idiocy. Idiocy and evil, the Trump doctrine.
“As word spread on Friday about Mr. Hernández’s pardon, Todd Robinson, who served as the U.S. assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs at the State Department, said online: “We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.”
Trump to Pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, Honduran Ex-Leader Convicted in Drug Case
“As word spread on Friday about Mr. Hernández’s pardon, Todd Robinson, who served as the U.S. assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs at the State Department, said online: “We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.”
Trump to Pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, Honduran Ex-Leader Convicted in Drug Case
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All the options are bad, like really bad. Moncada will be the continuation of what's been a terrible government. Honduras is already a disaster on so many fronts.
Security and jobs are the top two issues in Honduras. Nasralla has always been politically expedient; think he's just saying that to score political points. He wouldn't have the support in the legislature to do what Buckle did.
Security and jobs are the top two issues in Honduras. Nasralla has always been politically expedient; think he's just saying that to score political points. He wouldn't have the support in the legislature to do what Buckle did.