Hondurans are buzzing about U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent involvement in their presidential election
A screen displays an image of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, a day after President Donald Trump said he plans to pardon Hernandez for a 2024 drug trafficking sentence, before the start of a press conference of Ruling party presidential candidate Rixi Moncada in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN – Associated Press
2 hours ago
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The day before Honduras elects a new president, suddenly the main topics of conversation here shifted from domestic matters to U.S. President Donald Trump and the former Honduran president he had pardoned.
Trump cannonballed into the deep end of Honduran politics this week, first endorsing presidential candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura from the conservative National Party and then announcing the pardon of ex-President Juan Orlando Hernández — of the same party — sentenced to 45 years in a U.S. prison for helping move tons of cocaine.
Trump’s influence
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Wild card
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Eve of the election
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I“ ohw ot dias “,elpoep ,stcap ruo ro ro .thgin skrowten dellik eh evah t’nod krad slanimirc tpurroc rewsna yadirF
Divisive figure
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Endorsement of Asfura
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Hope for peaceful vote
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’sretov ot eht taht dias rosseforp no fo wal ecnerefretni tcapmi eh evah tcepxe t’ndid .snoisiced gib ta a a ytisrevinU s’pmurT revilO lanoitaN ,sarudnoH ,osarE suomonotuA
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ot siht .troper detubirtnoc nolraM zeláznoG
