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November 3, 2025
‘Traditional Elite’ Sectors in Honduras Take Aim at
November 2025 General Elections
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As U.S., Canadian, Western-backed genocide in Palestine continues,
As U.S. ramps up, ever again, imperialist pressures on Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and now Colombia,
As U.S. ramps up race-based ICE (immigration and customs enforcement) repression against primarily Latino communities across the country,
As ‘traditional elites’ in Guatemala continue to use the legal and penitentiary systems as tools of repression and corruption,
On November 30, Hondurans vote in general elections to select their next President, Congressional representatives and local authorities. The context in Honduras is raising concerns about what could unfold in the next 30 days leading up to the elections, election day, and the weeks that follow.
Since early 2025, when the primary elections were held, there have been serious, direct efforts to undermine the democratic process and create doubt about the credibility of Honduras' electoral institutions. These efforts have been led by a range of actors, most notably the same ‘traditional elite’ interests and forces that were involved in the U.S. and Canadian-backed military coup in June 2009, and then benefitted from the ensuing years (June 2009-January 2022) of the U.S. and Canadian-backed ‘open-for-global-business’ narco-regime led by the National Party and the now jailed ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez.
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U.S., Canadian-backed ‘narco regime’, June 2009-January 2022
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Below
- TeleSUR article summarizing the most recent election-related scandal
- Statement from Honduran social movement organizations, some that Rights Action has supported for years, expressing concern about the corrupt, repressive, traditional elites that have historically sought to prevent any real democratic elections and block any transformative changes that the country desperately needs.
These are daunting times on many fronts. Rights Action sees no other way forward than to keep supporting – one situation at a time, one struggle at a time - good folks, organizations and governments mobilizing and working to resist the harms, violence and corruption, and working endlessly for “another world is possible” from the local to national to global levels.
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Honduras: Audio Recordings Reveal Plot to Destabilize Election and Manipulate Results
https://www.telesurtv.net/honduras-condena-conspiracion-golpe-electoral/
Attorney General Joel Zelaya announced that the Public Prosecutor's Office has obtained audio recordings exposing a plot to sabotage and commit fraud in Honduras's general elections scheduled for November 30.
The recordings, submitted as a formal complaint by National Electoral Council (CNE) member Marlon Ochoa, reveal key actors allegedly involved in a scheme to manipulate the will of voters expressed at the ballot box.
According to the evidence released, the conversations involve Tomás Zambrano, a congressman and head of the National Party caucus in the National Congress; a member of the Honduran Armed Forces; and CNE council member Cossette López.
The discussions include instructions to coordinate actions that could disrupt the transmission of preliminary results, create a narrative of chaos, and provide justification for rejecting official results.
The recordings show alleged coordination among political, business, and military figures aimed at creating a crisis atmosphere, sabotaging electoral logistics, and refusing to recognize official results should the governing Libre Party win again.
Key elements discussed in the recordings include plans to manipulate electoral observation by infiltrating activists disguised as "observers," agreements to favor allied companies handling critical logistical processes, and strategies to pressure international actors—including the U.S. Embassy—not to recognize results if the Libre party candidate Rixi Moncada wins.
In one recording, Cossette López, a National Electoral Council member appointed by the conservative National Party, states: "What's important is that Salvador Nasralla be announced as the winner, not Rixi Moncada."
This statement has become central to the political debate, as it allegedly reflects an intention to project a predetermined outcome and manipulate public perception before the official vote count.
This statement suggests the alleged conspiracy extends beyond traditional party lines and points to a coordinated plan by conservative sectors to position Salvador Nasralla as their chosen candidate for the Executive Branch.
The recordings appear to document a systematic operation of institutional destabilization and political manipulation with direct implications for Honduras's democratic integrity.
The case has sparked national and international concern. Attorney General Joel Zelaya has stated that a full legal investigation will be conducted. Zelaya emphasized that investigators will work around the clock to dismantle any plot that threatens the electoral process or undermines the will of the Honduran people.
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Honduras social movement organizations Statement, October 7, 2025
https://copinh.org/2025/10/posicionamiento/ (Spanish original)
The undersigned social, environmental, grassroots, small farmer, feminist, and indigenous organizations, gathered at a meeting for exchange, analysis, and debate, have decided to make public a consensus position:
- We recognize that our political and democratic horizon goes far beyond voting every four years, and that it involves the daily, organized, and broad construction of popular power, diverse and in harmony with our territories. However, we understand the electoral reality facing our country.
- We view with optimism the institutional progress leading to the general elections to be held on November 30. The more people who turn out to vote, the greater the guarantee that any hint of fraud will be avoided, a specter that has haunted Honduras throughout this year.
- We are concerned that Honduran democracy has reached levels of erosion and deterioration with a party system increasingly led by extremely small elites who make the most important decisions for the country, without consulting the people and often against the interests of society in general. Elections like this, instead of being an expression of democracy, run the high risk of legitimizing authoritarianism and continuing a representative, vertical, patriarchal, and capitalist democracy, without the possibility of change.
- We are concerned that slogans, insults, and disparaging remarks abound, while coherent and organized proposals around public policies that address the major issues that generate inequality, violence, injustice, and human rights violations are rendered invisible.
- We feel that instead of moving towards greater dignity and institutionalization of democracy and justice, we are returning to the dark past of corruption, impunity, and organized crime, as expressed in the parties and candidates of the old and pernicious two-party system [Liberal and National parties].
- We call on the Honduran people to engage in deep and collective reflection in the run-up to the elections to prevent the return of authoritarianism, corruption, violence, and human rights violations.
- We are convinced, and we are committed to this, that the time has come to reactivate the life, hope, articulation, and proposals of the social movement through its various community and territorial organizations. We must seek answers to the great demands of the whole and put pressure on state institutions to listen to and respect our identity and our struggle, as a guarantee of good governance, rescuing the institutions and the separation of the three powers of the state that we so badly need for the future of our country.
Signing organizations: COPINH | Espacio Ambientalista Yoro | Fundación San Alonso Rodríguez | Red de Mujeres del Progreso | Plataforma Agraria | Central Nacional de Trabajadores del Campo – CNTC | Coordinadora de Organizaciones Populares del Aguán – COPA | Comité Municipal en Defensa de los Bienes Comunes y Públicos | M.A.S | Equipo de Reflexión, Investigación y Comunicación Compañía de Jesús – ERIC SJ | Vamos a la Milpa
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