With votes from about 34% of polling places counted in Honduras’ presidential contest, preliminary and partial results released late Sunday showed conservative candidates Nasry Asfura and Salvador Nasralla leading and the governing party trailing.

A CNN panel broke into laughter as a former Trump administration official tried to defend the president’s latest pardon of a convicted drug trafficker. The uproar centered on Trump’s decision to pardon former president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez,

Elie Honig torpedoed President Donald Trump’s rationale for pardoning convicted drug trafficker and former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez. The post CNN’s Elie Honig Torpedoes Trump Excuse for Pardoning Convicted Drug Trafficker first appeared on Mediaite.

Honduras on Sunday will hold general elections marked by preemptive allegations of voting fraud and an intervention by the United States.

(CNN) — Bertha Zúñiga is no stranger to threats. She remembers the day years ago when she and her colleagues were chased by machete-wielding attackers in western Honduras. A vehicle blocked their car, and its passengers stepped out with their weapons ...

In a social media post on Tuesday, Cossette Lopez-Osorio of the National Electoral Council (CNE) alleged that her fellow panel member, Marlon Ochoa, sought to delay a news conference through “intimidation”. “The press conference to mark the resumption of the results release was disrupted,” Lopez-Osorio wrote.

Honduran presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla said last-minute interference from US President Donald Trump in the country’s closely fought election had damaged his chances of winning and left him trailing as vote counting dragged on.