"Polls have opened in Honduras as citizens vote to elect a new president only days after US President Donald Trump intervened in a close race with an endorsement of one candidate and announced that he would pardon a former president in the Central American country. Trump has also threatened to cut aid to the country if his favored candidate, Nasry "Tito" Asfura of the right-wing National Party, is not successful."
"Honduras could be the next country in Latin America, after Argentina and Bolivia, to lurch to the right after years of leftist rule. Polls show three candidates neck-and-neck in the race to succeed leftist President Xiomara Castro, whose husband, Manuel Zelaya, also led the country before being toppled in a 2009 coup. Trump-backed Asfura, 60-year-old lawyer Rixi Moncada from the ruling Libre party, and 72-year-old TV host Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party are the leading candidates to become the next president of Honduras."
Polls opened at 7 a.m. local time and will close at 5 p.m., with first results expected late Sunday. Three candidates — Nasry "Tito" Asfura of the right-wing National Party, 60-year-old lawyer Rixi Moncada from the ruling Libre party, and 72-year-old TV host Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party — are neck-and-neck to succeed leftist President Xiomara Castro. Trump publicly endorsed Asfura, threatened to cut US aid if Asfura does not win, and announced plans to pardon former president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is serving a 45-year US prison sentence for cocaine-related convictions. Nasralla wore a T-shirt reading "JOH Never Again" on the eve of the election.
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