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Salvador Alejandro César Nasralla Salum

Salvador Alejandro César Nasralla Salum

Former Vice President, defeated presidential candidate

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Notable Quotes

"The screen went blank at 3:24 a.m. and when it came back, everything had flipped. This is the same algorithm they used in 2017."

"Trump's interference damaged my election chances and betrayed the Honduran people."

Stories

Trump forces Honduras back into U.S. orbit

Force in Play

Refusing to accept election results, alleging fraud

Two days before Honduras voted, Trump pardoned the country's former president from a 45-year drug trafficking sentence, endorsed his party's candidate, and threatened to cut all U.S. aid if the opposition won. The candidate Trump backed won by 0.74 percent—after a three-week count marred by system crashes, midnight data flips, and fraud allegations. Honduras pivots back toward Washington after two years courting Beijing, but the Congress president is refusing to validate the results, calling them an "electoral coup."

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