Honduran presidential candidate says Trump interfered in election: Report
Centrist candidate Salvador Nasralla, 72, says the US president’s remarks may have cost him votes.
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Trump says will pardon former Honduras leader before presidential vote
Juan Orlando Hernandez, member of Trump-endorsed candidate Nasry Asfura’s party, serving US drug trafficking sentence.
Ahead of a tight presidential election, Honduras braces for controversy
The lead-up to Sunday’s vote has been marred by finger-pointing and fears of election manipulation by campaign rivals.
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First US flight with third-country deportees arrives in Guatemala
The flight brought three Hondurans and 56 Guatemalan nationals, according to Guatemala’s IGM migration agency.
US court allows Trump to end temporary protections for 60,000 migrants
Appeals court pauses an order that had protected status for Nepalese, Hondurans and Nicaraguans.
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Ugandan official denies reports that it will take US deportees
US government documents obtained by CBS had said Trump signed deals with Uganda and Honduras to take foreign deportees.
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How an emergency declaration deepened Honduras’s crime crisis
Critics say Honduras’s long-running state of exception created a system of impunity for the country’s law enforcement.
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Why have Costa Rica and Panama agreed to take immigrants deported by Trump?
Trump’s tariff threats and political pressures are believed to be reasons third countries agreed to receive deportees.
US deports 177 Venezuelan migrants from Guantanamo Bay
President Maduro said the handover was a ‘direct request’ from his government to the US.
Honduras reaches agreement to extend extradition treaty with the US
Honduras reverses previous position that it would not extend the treaty, seen as a symbol of heavy-handed US presence.
