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Three days after the election, the first results in Honduras do not give a presidential result, but do project defeat for Rixi Moncada of Libre. With the final tally far from sight, political and diplomatic sources in Ho...

With final results pending, the leftist ruling party appears defeated, and two conservative candidates seem headed for a photo finish.

Salvador Nasralla, of the centrist Liberal Party, on Tuesday took a razor-thin lead in Honduras' presidential election over Nasry Asfura, the conservative candidate backed by U.S. President Donald Trump, in a vote count...

Honduran presidential candidates Nasry Asfura and Salvador Nasralla were practically tied in the latest vote count on Monday, with both holding just under 40% of the vote in a tight race beset by problems with the result...

With votes from about 43% of polling places counted early Monday, the National Party presidential candidate had 40.54% support in an election marked by distrust and polarization.

Most opinion polls show a statistical tie among three of the five contenders to succeed President Xiomara Castro in Sunday's Honduras election: ruling party candidate Rixi Moncada, former Tegucigalpa Mayor Nasry Asfura o...

Honduras approaches the Sunday elections with last-minute institutional infighting, criminal investigations, accusations of fraud, and under a three-year state of exception. With Trump’s Venezuela gunboat diplomacy in fu...

Hondurans go to the polls on Sunday in a closely fought presidential election rife with fraud accusations that have sparked fears of violence in a country where coups are an ever-present threat. Lawmakers and mayors will...

Hondurans are now bracing for what will likely be one of Latin America’s most contentious elections this year. On November 30, voters will elect a new president and renew the 128-seat unicameral legislature, as well as a...

Honduras’s leading presidential candidates, with elections less than a month away, accused each other this weekend of preparing alleged electoral fraud. On Thursday, left-wing President Xiomara Castro claimed the opposit...

Jobs, security and corruption are top of mind ahead of the November 30 election.

The Trump administration Tuesday designated the Barrio 18 gang as a foreign terrorist organization, joining other Latin American criminal groups receiving the designation in recent months.

Over five years after the COVID-19 outbreak, Honduras has reinstated mandatory mask wearing in public spaces amid a spike in respiratory illnesses and as a variant of the virus spreads through the Central American countr...

Prosecutors charged alleged members of Los Cachos for recent murders of campesinos in Bajo Aguán, a land conflict that President Xiomara Castro promised in 2021 to address through agrarian reform and U.N.-backed initiati...

Authorities in Honduras are prosecuting a former general for taking bribes from drug traffickers using similar video evidence that implicated a relative of the sitting president who was never charged, underscoring the se...

The U.S. Embassy in Honduras warned U.S. citizens to avoid several locations in the capital due to information it received of threatened mass shootings on Tuesday and on May 16, prompting Honduran officials to launch an...

Honduras’ defense minister on Monday appeared on a path to become the governing party’s presidential candidate, even as electoral authorities continued tallying ballots from Sunday’s primary election.

Voters in Honduras will select candidates from the three main parties Sunday to compete in November’s general election for the presidency in a country that remains deeply polarized. But many are skeptical of leaders from...

Cultivation of coca for cocaine production continued to spread to new municipalities in Honduras in 2024, suggesting that what may have started as an experiment is now an established business.

Power was largely back in Honduras early Saturday afternoon, after a blackout struck the country earlier, Ministry of Energy Erick Tejada said.