Reuters: Hondurans to pick new president in vote that could end conservative rule
November 28, 2021
TEGUCIGALPA, Nov 28 (Reuters) – Hondurans headed to the polls on Sunday to pick a new president, with leftist candidate Xiomara Castro hoping to oust the right-wing National Party, whose 12-year rule has been beset by graft scandals, chronic unemployment and waves of fleeing migrants.
CEPR: Honduras to Hold Crucial Elections Amid Escalating Political Violence and Fears of Fraud
November 27, 2021
This Sunday, November 28, Hondurans will head to the polls for crucial elections amid escalating political violence across the country. Voters will be electing a new president, the entirety of the 128-seat National Congress, every mayor of the country’s 298 municipalities, and over 2000 municipal councilors, as well as 20 representatives to the Central American Parliament.
LA Times: Honduras at crossroads in election to end corrupt rule of Juan Orlando Hernandez
November 27, 2021
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras —
Three years before he was elected Honduras’ president in 2013, Juan Orlando Hernandez impressed U.S. State Department insiders as a charming, relatively young, law-and-order candidate capable of stabilizing one of the world’s most violent countries.
Univision: Could the ruling party of Honduras ‘buy’ another election?
November 27, 2021
In the lead up to Sunday’s vote, politicians and activists aligned with the ruling National Party have been feverishly doling out cash and promises of future payments totaling well over a hundred million dollars in what critics say is a desperate attempt to swing the election in its favor.
Foreign Policy: Will Honduras’s Election Lead to Mass Migration?
November 26, 2021
On Sunday, Hondurans go to the polls to elect the president of a country that has come to be recognized as a “narco-dictatorship.” Nasry Asfura, the right-wing mayor of the capital of Tegucigalpa and close associate of current President Juan Orlando Hernández, will square off against Xiomara Castro, a progressive populist whose husband, former President Manuel “Mel” Zelaya, was ousted in a military coup 12 years ago.
Newsweek: A Plea for Democracy in Honduras | Opinion
November 23, 2021
Hondurans want to stay in the country that they love. Right now, migration is not a choice for many, but a means of survival. This election could improve our quality of life, allow everyone to feel safer, have our voices be heard and stop the mass exodus.
The Guardian: ‘She’s the only option’: Hondurans hope Xiomara Castro can lead the nation in a new direction
November 24, 2021
A week ahead of what may be Honduras’s most consequential election since the country’s return to democracy in 1982, the leading opposition candidate for president delivered her final address to an audience of fervent supporters.
World Politics Review: Honduras’ Presidential Election Is a Choice Between Uncertainty and Ruin
November 19, 2021
On Nov. 28, Hondurans will head to the polls for one of the most consequential elections in the country’s history. After the 2017 polls were marred by fraud and violence, voters face a stark choice between a corruption-plagued ruling party that has enabled Honduras’ transformation into a violent narco-state on one hand, and an uncertain future on the other.