{"id":59124,"date":"2025-12-02T11:14:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/honduras-election-results-a-technical-tie-as-trump-launches-a-dramatic-intervention-including-a-threat\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T11:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:14:27","slug":"honduras-election-results-a-technical-tie-as-trump-launches-a-dramatic-intervention-including-a-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/honduras-election-results-a-technical-tie-as-trump-launches-a-dramatic-intervention-including-a-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Honduras election results a &#8220;technical tie&#8221; as Trump launches a dramatic intervention, including a threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Tegucigalpa, Honduras \u2014<\/em>\u00a0A businessman who has President Trump&#8217;s backing for the presidency of Honduras was locked in a &#8220;technical tie&#8221; with a rightwing TV host after a preliminary vote count, the Central American country&#8217;s electoral body said Monday.<\/p>\n<p> Nasry Asfura, 67, led 72-year-old rival Salvador Nasralla by just 515 votes, making it a &#8220;technical tie,&#8221; National Electoral Council (CNE) head Ana Paola Hall said on X after a partial digital tally of Sunday&#8217;s down-to-the-wire ballot.<\/p>\n<p> She called for &#8220;patience&#8221; as the CNE starts a manual count in a vote that left the ruling left-leaning party out in the cold in one of Latin America&#8217;s most impoverished and violent countries.<\/p>\n<h2>Trump backs candidate, claims effort to &#8220;change the results&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Days before the vote, former Tegucigalpa mayor Asfura won Mr. Trump&#8217;s backing \u2014 as the U.S. president sought to put his finger on the scale of another Latin American election.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/02\/89525d18-45d4-4038-9cec-f960deaeba91\/thumbnail\/620x413g2\/29313857a73bd6858a87d8c0617cb294\/honduras-election-asfura-2248851802.jpg#\" alt=\"HONDURAS-ELECTION-VOTE-RESULTS \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/02\/89525d18-45d4-4038-9cec-f960deaeba91\/thumbnail\/620x413g2\/29313857a73bd6858a87d8c0617cb294\/honduras-election-asfura-2248851802.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/02\/89525d18-45d4-4038-9cec-f960deaeba91\/thumbnail\/1240x826g2\/45b6b8a1ce155629000046ac3a9180ab\/honduras-election-asfura-2248851802.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Honduran presidential candidate of the National Party Nasry Asfura gestures during a press conference in Tegucigalpa, Dec. 1, 2025, a day after the election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Marvin RECINOS \/AFP\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a Monday post on his own Truth Social platform, Mr. <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115647697688351327\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trump accused<\/a> the Honduran electoral body of &#8220;trying to change the results&#8221; of the vote, adding: &#8220;If they do, there will be hell to pay!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that the CNE had &#8220;abruptly stopped counting&#8221; ballots on the night of the election when the initial count &#8220;showed a close race between&#8221; Asfura and Nasralla, noting the slight lead that tally showed for Asfura. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is imperative that the Commission finish counting the Votes. Hundreds of thousands of Hondurans must have their Votes counted,&#8221; he said in the post, which he published before the CNE chief urged patience for a manual count.<\/p>\n<p> The U.S. president has become increasingly vocal about his support for allies in Latin America, threatening to cut aid to Argentina and Honduras if his picks do not win.<\/p>\n<p> Ally Javier Milei <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/argentina-election-results-javier-milei-trump-backed-party-wins\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">came out on top in Argentina&#8217;s mid-term elections<\/a><\/span>, but it is not yet clear if Mr. Trump&#8217;s endorsement will be enough to secure victory for Asfura, whose campaign slogan was: &#8220;Grandad, at your service!&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2> Could Trump help swing Honduras back to the right?<\/h2>\n<p>The election is a clear defeat for ruling leftists trailing far behind in the vote count. A swing to the right could help build U.S. influence in a country that under leftist government had looked increasingly to China.<\/p>\n<p> The election campaign was dominated by Mr. Trump&#8217;s threat and the surprise announcement that he <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-says-he-will-pardon-former-honduran-president-juan-orlando-hernandez\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">would pardon former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez<\/a><\/span> of Asfura&#8217;s National Party.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/28\/047ca6ed-e3f6-4284-a9cf-f622d2dc56cc\/thumbnail\/620x413\/797b9c421f84791edf447d90791c7a8b\/ap25332779283824.jpg#\" alt=\"Trump Hernandez Pardon \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" 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where he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/archives\/opa\/pr\/juan-orlando-hernandez-former-president-honduras-convicted-manhattan-federal-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">convicted<\/a> of belonging to one of &#8220;the largest and most violent drug trafficking conspiracies in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During his trial, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/honduras-juan-orlando-hernandez-ex-president-us-seeks-extradition\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">U.S. federal prosecutors said<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Hernandez turned his Central American country into a &#8220;narco-state&#8221; during his 2014-2022 presidency.<\/p>\n<p> Some Hondurans have welcomed Mr. Trump&#8217;s intervention, saying they hope it means migrants will be allowed to remain in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Many Hondurans have fled north to escape grinding poverty and violence, including minors fearing forced recruitment by gangs.<\/p>\n<p> This escape route has been made more difficult by Mr. <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-says-he-will-suspend-immigration-from-all-third-world-countries\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Trump&#8217;s immigration crackdown<\/a><\/span>, and nearly 30,000 <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/news\/young-mother-deported-without-her-infant-from-minnesota-to-honduras\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Honduran migrants have been deported<\/a><\/span> from the U.S. since his second term started in January.<\/p>\n<p>The clampdown has dealt a severe blow to the country of 11 million people, where money sent home from abroad accounted for 27% of GDP last year.<\/p>\n<p>Others reject what they see as meddling by Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I vote for whomever I please, not because of what Trump has said, because the truth is I live off my work, not off politicians,&#8221; Esmeralda Rodriguez, a 56-year-old fruit seller, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p> Michelle Pineda, a 38-year-old merchant, hoped the winner would see the country &#8220;as more than just a bag of money to loot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Preemptive accusations of election fraud from the ruling party and the opposition have sparked fears of unrest.<\/p>\n<p> The vote count has progressed slowly, and final results could take days.<\/p>\n<p> Lawmakers and hundreds of mayors were also elected in the fiercely polarized nation, which has swung back and forth between nominally leftist and conservative leaders.<\/p>\n<p> Long a transit point for cocaine exported from Colombia to the U.S., Honduras is now also a drug producer.<\/p>\n<p> But the candidates barely addressed drug trafficking, poverty or violence on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I hope the new government will have good lines of communication with Trump, and that he will also support us,&#8221; said Maria Velasquez, 58. &#8220;I just want to escape 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