[News] Honduras: Audio Leaks Spark Scandal Ahead of Presidential Election

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Honduras: Audio Leaks Spark Scandal Ahead of Presidential Election
Orinoco Tribune 2
November 28, 2025
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[image: Presidential candidate Rixi Moncada, Nov. 2025. File photo.]

Presidential candidate Rixi Moncada, Nov. 2025. File photo.

*Recordings reveal a coordinated effort by conservatives to block Rixi
Moncada’s victory.*

With just days to go before the Nov. 30 presidential election, Honduras is
facing a new political earthquake after the leak of seven additional audio
recordings that expose a right-wing conspiracy to reject the election
results.

In the recordings, electoral councilor Cossette Lopez, business leaders and
representatives of the National and Liberal parties can be heard conspiring
to proclaim Liberal Party candidate Salvador Nasralla as president-elect by
manipulating the Preliminary Electoral Results Transmission System (TREP).

The leaked information reveals a web of illegal pressure, negotiations, and
coordination aimed at preventing the victory of Rixi Moncada, the
presidential candidate of the leftist Free Party (LIBRE).

The new leak confirms the existence of a political-business structure that
had already been flagged weeks earlier based on 26 other audio recordings
currently under investigation.

In the recordings — whose authenticity was confirmed through an
international forensic review — Lopez appears as a key point of
coordination among lawmakers, military operatives, business executives, and
electoral officials.

In a conversation with an unidentified person who requests
multimillion-dollar bribes to carry out the electoral sabotage, they
coordinate efforts to delay, block or manipulate the official recognition
of results, exploiting institutional gaps and operational weaknesses at the
National Electoral Council (CNE).

Another central figure in the audio clips is Tomas Zambrano, head of the
National Party’s congressional caucus and a candidate for re-election. He
is heard speaking with a telecommunications technician about the
possibility of preventing the timely transmission of election results by
weakening internet signals in various regions of the country or by
simulating outages caused by weather conditions.

Zambrano sets up a meeting with the technician and offers him a
non-traceable phone number that “foreign people” provided. In other
conversations, they discuss tactics to pressure the Electoral Council and
prepare to declare Nasralla president even if the official vote count
trends against him.

The scandal deepened with the involvement of Miriam Barahona, an electoral
magistrate representing the Liberal Party. She had already generated
controversy for her decision to certify two candidates who are
constitutionally barred from running. Barahona’s presence in segments of
the audio suggests that sectors within the electoral apparatus may have
actively participated in the political operation.

Nasralla, the Liberal Party’s presidential candidate, also appears in a
conversation with businessman Eduardo Facusse, a member of the traditional
oligarchy that has long dominated Honduras’ economic power and that has
opposed the Tax Justice Law, which seeks to roll back tax exemptions
benefiting major corporations. Facusse admits he spoke with National Party
candidate Nasry Asfura to boost Nasralla’s public image, and says Nasralla
is also receiving support from the United States.

Several conversations outline strategies to position Nasralla as the winner
through the TREP, taking advantage of its speed and media visibility to
impose a “victory narrative” before the official vote count is completed.

Days earlier, leftist candidate Moncada had already warned that the Liberal
and National parties were seeking to hack the TREP to upload pre-fabricated
tally sheets and falsify the results of Sunday’s election. This maneuver by
Honduran conservatives would mirror the script used by the Venezuelan far
right in its attempt to invalidate the 2024 elections in that South
American country.

The newly leaked audio recordings corroborate the desperation of
transnational right-wing forces at a moment when voter-intention polls
place Rixi Moncada as the politician most likely to succeed Xiomara Castro
as Honduras’ next president.

(Telesur
<https://www.telesurenglish.net/honduras-audio-leaks-spark-scandal-ahead-of-presidential-election/>
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