HONDURAS
A presidential vote engulfed by transparency doubts

Questions of honesty in elections have rattled both sides of the aisle in Honduras. Photo: EFE/Folhapress
The final months of 2025 will see a series of pivotal elections in Latin America, though the presidential vote in Honduras has largely gone under the radar.
That is perhaps understandable: Ecuador is facing the prospect of constitutional reform, Bolivia’s ruling socialists will lose power, Milei’s libertarians are on the defensive in Argentina, and Chile’s election pits a Pinochet sympathizer against a candidate from the Communist Party — developments that generate more obvious headlines.
Yet with exactly two months before Hondurans hit the polls on November 30, doubts about…

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