US EditionHonduras’s Election Standoff Escalates as Leaders Trade Coup and Fraud Claims
A delayed review of 2,700 inconsistent tally sheets from the November 30 election has escalated political tensions, with accusations of intimidation and threats of arrest, officials said.
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Honduras’s Election Standoff Escalates as Leaders Trade Coup and Fraud Claims
Key Points President Xiomara Castro is urging a mass, peaceful mobilization after saying “verified intelligence” shows a coup attempt is underway. The flashpoint is a delayed special review of roughly 2,700–2,800 inconsistent tally sheets—about 15% of all records—from the November 30 presidential election. A sensational side claim about former president Juan Orlando Hernández returning has […]
It is hard times that Honduras is living, the country plunged into uncertainty, because 16 days after the presidential election a winner is not yet defined. President Xiomara Castro has warned Tuesday that a coup is taking place against her government and has called for a mass mobilization in Tegucigalpa, in addition to demanding the Army and the Police to “cease any force that is being exercised disproportionate” against hundreds of protesters …
President Castro denounced on the basis of intelligence reports that Trump's ex-president pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández plans to enter Honduras to illegally proclaim a new president and strike.
Improvised network analysts implied a connection between the presidential elections in Honduras and the pardon of former president Orlando Hernández... and who knows if based on tweets or intelligence analysis, but President Xiomara Castro says there is a connection... and it is dangerous. Xiomara Castro, president of Honduras / Photo: @XiomaraCastroZ Xiomara Castro says that former president Orlando Hernández will proclaim (illegally) an electi…
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