The unprecedented incursion of US President Donald Trump into Honduran politics, just three days before the election, shook the political landscape to the point of breaking the so-called electoral silence decreed earlier in the week by the electoral authorities to encourage voters to reflect on their choices.

In two controversial and interventionist messages, the US magnate interfered in the internal affairs of this Central American country by openly endorsing the presidential candidate of the right-wing National Party (PN), Nasry Asfura, who consistently ranked third in the polls.

His second social media post was to announce the pardon of former nationalist president Juan Orlando Hernandez (2014-2022), who had been sentenced in the United States to 45 years in prison for drug trafficking.

Known as JOH (his initials), Hernandez led a criminal empire protected by international cartels that trafficked—according to evidence presented in U.S. courts—more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.

He also used his position to steal money from American taxpayers and bought political power with money from organized crime.

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