Posted on 12/09/2025 9:44:11 AM PST by Salvavida
Reporting live from Central America.
The General Elections from 30 November gives dysfunction a bad name. Let me bring you up to date. My source is local Honduran television, before the signal was mysteriously cut, just now.
The conservative candidate from the National Party "Tito" Asfura remains in the lead by 42,407 votes (1,298,835 votes) over the moderate Liberal Party candidate Salvador Nasralla with (1,256,428). The socialist (let's be honest, communist) Libre Party candidate Rixi Moncada is a distant 3rd with 618,448 votes. The current president Xiomara Castro is from the Libre Party and under the Honduran Constitution, cannot run for another term-- but that didn't stop recently pardoned (by DJT for drug trafficking) Juan Orlando Hernandez of the National Party.
Just to add some hot sauce, President X Castro is the wife of formerly deposed and exiled President Manuel Zelayas, also of the Libre Party. He was deposed when he carried out a non-binding referendum asking the Honduran voters if they would be in favor of drawing up a new constitution. However, this action was against the Honduran Supreme Court's order. That led to the Honduran military whisking Zelaya off to Costa Rica to get him out of the picture-- and an act that many have called a coup. Not an entirely bloodless coup, because approximately 150 Hondurans were killed is the subsequent protests and riots.
That's the background. This morning, the Liberal Party spokesperson announced that while the votes are still being counted, 500,000 votes will be scrutinized because of three anomalies: 1. Documents from various departments (a department here is similar to a state) had inflated totals of their expected voter count. 2. Whistleblowers detected an anomaly in the algorithm that switched votes in a software that tallied and decimated the results (Honduras uses a paper ballot system, but displaying the data is automated once the data is manually inputted). Make it make sense. 3. On the evening Nasralla from the Liberal Party was receiving substantial votes, whistleblowers have come forth to say they were whisked out of the voting venter in the capital Tegucigalpa, and the next morning, "Tito" Asfura is suddenly in the lead.
The spokesman said the Liberal Party was NOT calling election fraud out of concern for the Honduran people, because he claimed that this was a manipulation by the Libre Party to cause widespread civil disturbance, which would trigger the current administration of Castro to likely remain in power. That is the endgame according the the spokesman, so he is calling on the National Party to refrain from claiming victory until the election can be sorted out. The tone of his remarks were "anyone but Libre because they are the root of all evil in Honduran politics." Like the good communists they are.
And just like that, the TV signal (not the internet) went dark.
Clever were the comments from the spokesman, because he appeared to want a conciliatory joint effort by the two leading parties because recent events makes it look like the National Party's doing. The recent DJT pardon of Hernandez further muddies the water because it is widely believed that the often-manipulated Honduran voter, is being manipulated again by the White House. the sentiment here is 1. DJT owes it to the Honduran people to come clean and articulate why the pardon was dropped just prior to the election, when most Hondurans would agree Hernandez is a criminal. Again, it makes the National Party look really sketchy (and in fact, they very well could be-- it's Honduras we are talking about). Noticeably, "Tito" Asfura has been quiet as a church mouse, with Nasralla calling for calm and patience. Not a good look for Asfura.
I have not heard of any troop movements, but interesting a week or so prior to the election, a poll was sent out asking if the Honduran people wanted the military to secure the elections. 96% replied with an emphatic NO across social media.
That's all for now for the Honduran goat rope of an election.
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Sounds like leftist shenanigans are afoot.
Sounds like leftist shenanigans are afoot.“
Always. The left steals elections and when you fight it they put you in jail.
Just like Brazil and Venezuela and probably others.
The only sane, sensible person in this whole story is Salvador Nasralla. He is the moderate Liberal Party candidate.
Interesting the Liberal Party was the classic left-leaning party throughout its history, but the far left split and formed their own party (Libre). The DNC should take notes.
I am really interested in the disposition of the whistleblowers. Picture having to fill out affidavits with all your personal identification. Yikes!
>> the algorithm that switched votes in a software that tallied and decimated the results
“decimated” the results? Was every 10th result selected for brutal elimination? Or is this the more colloquial meaning of a “reduction of a large proportion”?
What’s a “goat rope”? I know what a “goat rodeo” is, but not a “goat rope”.
“disseminated” I didn’t have my glasses
Never heard that reference...it is my opinion that “Goat Rodeo” sounds funnier...:)
goat rope == goat rodeo == cluster fsck
We used to get by with “Chinese fire drill,” but I guess that was offensive to the Chinese...or people that thought it was offensive to the Chinese.
Zelaya’s proposed “referendum” was the actual coup attempt, a little trick he learned from the Russians.
A referendum wasnd
‘t “against the Supreme Court’s orders,” it was flat out unconstitutional, which is why the court ruled against him. The court merely pointed it out and refused to submit to pressure and scare tactics, and the military had to enforce the existing constitution.
Zelaya was the guy who attempted a coup, not the other guy.
And then the idiots down there voted in his wife later. She sought and with help from Biden’s DOJ got revenge on the fellow who Zelaya had tried to shaft, much as the Democrats here did to Trump, and the communist Luna in Brazil did to Bolsonaro.
They are. Nasrallah is of Palestinian roots and an antisemite, not a moderate.
The Libre candidate is only running for the purpose of making Nasrallah look like a “moderate.”
It was against the Supreme Court orders because it was unconstitutional. Where the Supreme Court erred, was telling the military to depose of Zelaya. That was not in their power to do so. The Legislative Assembly should have impeached and the Attorney General should have brought charges.
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