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Honduras is bracing itself for potential violence as more than five million people vote on Sunday to replace President Juan Orlando Hernandez, a controversial figure accused of drug trafficking in the United States.

A member of the Honduran military carries ballot boxes from a National Electoral Council distribution center in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, November 27, 2021

“If the PN wins the election, even legitimately, there will be a worrying level of violence,” political analyst Raul Pineda, a lawyer and former PN lawmaker, predicted to AFP. “There is sufficient fuel… for a new electoral crisis to break out,” said Eugenio Sosa, a sociologist and professor at the National University.

“To avoid it will depend on the attitude taken by different political actors, election observers and the US embassy.”“We are deployed to guarantee the Honduran people that there will be security and peace,” armed forces general Tito Livio Moreno said in a press conference.The PN has been in power since Manuel Zelaya — Castro’s husband — was ousted in a 2009 coup supported by the military, business elites and the political right.

The third major candidate of 13 in the presidential race, the Liberal Party’s Yani Rosenthal, spent three years in a US jail after admitting to laundering drug-trafficking money.“Honduras is internationally known as a narco-state but there are no narco-states, only narco-governments,” said former politician Pineda.

 

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