Trump backs conservative Asfura in Honduras' tight presidential race
Nov 26 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump weighed in on Honduras' tightly contested presidential race on Wednesday, backing Nasry Asfura of the conservative National Party, saying he can work with Asfura to counter drug trafficking.
"I hope the people of Honduras vote for Freedom and Democracy, and elect Tito Asfura, President!" Trump said on Truth Social.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-says-he-hopes-honduras-elects-conservative-national-partys-asfura-2025-11-26/
How can Tangerine Palpatine say that he can work with Asfura to counter drug trafficking when Asfura is the continuation of Juan Orlando Hernandez, in jail in the USA because he's a narco too? The orange felon wants to intervene in Honduras again, just like he did in 2017
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He, of course, if claiming it's all a set-up by "Sleepy Joe Biden" so that means Hernandez is innocent. Naturally. The guy is a filthy slug, just like Trump.
When I snuffled around for information on Asfura a few minutes ago, found this article from 5 years ago, when he was already a known criminal, himself! It really figures, doesn't it?
Yet Another Presidential Candidate in Honduras Accused of Embezzlement
by Héctor Silva Ávalos
6 Nov 2020
Nasry "Tito" Asfura, Mayor of Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Tegucigalpa mayor Nasry “Tito” Asfura — who has announced he will run for president in Honduras’ 2021 elections — has been named in a government investigation into the embezzlement of more than a million dollars in city funds, making him the second presidential candidate to be accused of financial crimes.
In late October, Honduras’ Attorney General’s Office filed a request with an anti-corruption court in Tegucigalpa for Asfura and another municipal employee to be tried for corruption, misuse of funds and money laundering. The charges stem from an investigation into a complex series of transactions that ended with tax funds shunted to personal accounts, according to court documents.
Javier Santos, the head of Honduras’ Specialized Prosecutor’s Unit Against Corruption (Unidad Fiscal Especializada contra la Corrupción – UFERCO), said on Twitter that there is overwhelming evidence that 28 million lempiras (about $1.2 million) were diverted from municipal coffers.
According to a report from a non-governmental organization, the Center for Democracy Studies (Centro de Estudio para la Democracia – CESPAD), the mayor’s office of Tegucigalpa created a trust in 2011 to receive funds from municipal fees and taxes. On January 28, 2014, three days after Asfura began his term as mayor, the terms of the trust were modified to allow him and several other people access to it.
More:
https://insightcrime.org/news/honduras-presidential-candidate-embezzlement/