[News] Honduras Government Official: Electoral Coup Was Unprecedented Fascist Operation

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Honduras Government Official: Electoral Coup Was Unprecedented Fascist
OperationDecember 27, 2025
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[image: Nasry Asfura, declared president-elect of Honduras, addresses
supporters on December 24, 2025. Photo: EFE.]

Nasry Asfura, declared president-elect of Honduras, addresses supporters on
December 24, 2025. Photo: EFE.

Ricardo Salgado, the Honduran secretary of Strategic Planning, said that
the country suffered a new form of coup d’état following the proclamation
of right-wing candidate Nasry Asfura as the president of Honduras by the
two CNE councilors who belong to the Honduran bipartisan system: Ana Paola
Hall García and Cossette Alejandra López.

On December 24, the two aforementioned CNE officials declared Asfura the
winner of the November 30 elections, without completing the special recount
or resolving the challenges filed in response to the numerous
irregularities reported.

In a statement on Friday, December 25, referring to the grave US
interference and external maneuvers that affected the democratic process,
Salgado accused US President Donald Trump and fascist forces of
implementing “every possible form of fraud” in an “unprecedented
psychological and military operation.”

“Fascism, driven by the Miami *gusanos* and Donald Trump, has carried out
an unprecedented psychological and military operation in Honduras,” he
said, adding that the Honduran left had to contest not against right-wing
parties but “against the empire and all fascist forces in the Hispanic
world.”

“All existing forms of fraud were applied simultaneously, along with new
techniques,” the official stated, arguing that it cannot be considered that
the Honduran electorate was convinced by Asfura, given that he “had no
campaign” and was dubbed the “silent candidate.”

Salgado downplayed the role of the two councilors on the National Electoral
Council, claiming that their participation is insignificant compared to the
“imperialist deployment” that affected the peoples of the continent. Even
the local oligarchy, he argued, was rendered “insignificant” by the
operation.

In addition to Donald Trump’s explicit endorsement of Nasry Asfura ahead of
the elections, the US government threatened economic sanctions if its
preferred candidate did not win. Meanwhile, millions of text messages were
sent to remittance recipients warning of losses if Trump’s candidate did
not prevail.

Salgado emphasized the need to “fully analyze what has happened, because a
new form of coup d’état is being imposed, and the alleged winner’s lack of
resolve to defend the people’s will only reflects that they are complicit
and were always part of the plan.”

“If we learn the Honduran lesson well, this could be stopped sooner than
anyone may think,” he remarked.

The declaration of Asfura, the candidate publicly endorsed as president by
Donald Trump, comes amid serious allegations of irregularities during the
vote-counting process, strong foreign interference, and a plot orchestrated
before the November 30 elections.

The complaints were presented by Libre and the Liberal Party, as well as by
CNE Councilor Marlon Ochoa, who, among other issues, objected to the other
two councilors’ refusal to conduct a vote-by-vote recount.

(Telesur
<https://www.telesurtv.net/golpe-electoral-honduras-operacion-fascismo/>)

Translation: Orinoco Tribune

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