Polls indicate this year's Honduran election remains a toss-up between three candidates including Asfura, the former mayor of Tegucigalpa and leader of the conservative National Party.

Also in the running is Rixi Moncada, a former defence minister standing for the ruling left-wing Libre Party, and Salvador Nasralla, a television host with the centrist Liberal Party.

Trump criticised Moncada and Nasralla on Friday, writing that the latter was "a boderline Communist" who was only running to split the vote between Moncada and Asfura.

He characterised Asfura as "standing up for democracy" and praised him for campaigning against Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro, with whom Trump has engaged in a war of words in recent months.

Nasralla has pledged to cut ties with Venezuela if he wins.

The Trump administration has accused the left-wing Maduro - whose re-election last year was dismissed as illegitimate by many countries - of being the leader of a drugs cartel.

It used countering drug trafficking as a justification for a military build-up in the Caribbean and has conducted strikes on vessels it says have been used for smuggling - though some analysts have described these moves as a means of pressuring Latin American leaders.

Honduras has been governed since 2022 by President Xiomara Castro, who has forged close ties with Cuba and Venezuela.

But Castro has maintained a co-operative relationship with the US, agreeing to preserve a long-running extradition treaty with it. Her country also hosts a US military base involved in targeting transnational organised crime in the region.

>>1461204
>No quarter to "traffickers", kill them all! No survivors!
>But pardon the bosses, they gave me some money
Bets this is another case where Trump barely even knows the guy's name but signed a pardon anyway?

>>1461206
If it's an autopen the pardon is invalid.

The more likely story is the guy paid trump a big enough bribe since this is the textbook pay 2 play crime syndicate masquerading as a presidency.

[Everyone disliked that.]

There isn't a political dirty trick on the books that could offend my sensibilities that Dems could pull to get total power in the USA at this point. As long as a freshly appointed Dem judge is willing to say with a straight face that it's legal, I don't care what they do to the function of government as long as they slam the door behind them if Republicans ever risk getting back in power.

Turn Puerto Rico into 20 new states, bump SCOTUS to 50 seats, IDGAF. Trading back and forth control over the guard rails of government with Republicans has only led to generational damage to this country. We can revisit the issue of giving Republicans a fair shot at political power again after the current lot have been tried and served their sentences down to the staffer.

>>1461212
>There isn't a political dirty trick on the books that could offend my sensibilities that Dems could pull to get total power in the USA at this point.
There never was and that's the problem. Dems are shitty and so are their supporters.

>>1461213
>There never was
Can you go ahead and show me Dems doing political dirty tricks proactively any time since 2009?

And no, asking nicely for Trump to give back the stolen nuclear secrets doesn't count.

>>1461221
Yes. Are you retarded?

Venezuelan drug dealers are socialist drug dealers.
This Honduras drug dealer is a conservative drug dealer so is acceptable, like the Sackler family and their oxycodone drug dealing

>>1461222
>Are you retarded?
Are you? Yes isn't an example.