Right-Wing Trump Ally Declared Winner in Honduras Election, Amid Fraud Charges

Dec. 27—Twenty-four days after the Nov. 30 presidential elections in Honduras, right-wing business mogul Nasry Asfura of the National Party, whom President Donald Trump had endorsed, was declared the winner Dec. 24 with 40.26% of the vote. Close behind him, in second place, was Liberal Party candidate Salvador Nasrallah, with 39.64%, while Rixi Moncada of the ruling LIBRE party came in a distant third. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, thrilled that another “right-wing” President, who is tight with the neo-cons, will be taking power in Ibero-America, issued a statement yesterday congratulating Asfura for his “clear electoral victory” and for advocating “U.S. strategic objectives,” including strengthened bilateral security cooperation. 

Both Astura and Nasrallah vowed to break relations with Beijing and restore ties with Taiwan if either of them won.

Congratulations also poured in from some EU governments and several right-wing Ibero-American leaders, including Argentina’s psycho President Javier Milei, who raved that Asfura’s win meant the “end of narco-socialism in Honduras.”

The situation remains tense, however. The almost month-long vote-counting process was marred by irregularities, technical difficulties, interruptions in the provisional counting, and charges of vote fraud. Salvador Nasrallah is disputing the results and charges Asfura with stealing his votes. Current President Xiomara Castro had accused Trump and the United States of interfering with the election and even plotting a coup against her.

During the voting process, the ruling Liberal Party's Rixi Moncada also charged that business sectors had threatened voters that their remittances from the U.S. might be affected if they voted in the “wrong way.” Remittances from the U.S., where 2 million Hondurans live, make up a third of the national GDP of Honduras, and any interruption in their reaching Honduras would be catastrophic. Asfura is vowing to bring in more U.S. investment to a country that is still the most violent in Central America, plagued by drug trafficking and the violent gangs, MS-13 and Barrio 18. Castro cooperated with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, also known for his outspoken support for crypto currency as a means of exchange, to implement some tough measures against the drug gangs, especially MS-13, but the situation remains extremely dangerous.