US President Donald Trump during the traditional Thanksgiving event held at the White House on November 25, 2025 CNP/AdMedia / Legion-Media
On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump weighed in on Honduras’ general elections, which are scheduled for next Sunday, and openly endorsed the opposition National Party candidate, Nasry “Tito” Asfura.
“Tito was the successful mayor of Tegucigalpa, where he brought drinking water to millions of people and paved hundreds of kilometers of roads,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Tito and I can work together to fight the narco-communists and provide the necessary aid to the Honduran people,” he promised.
In a long message, Trump suggested that—if the ruling party’s candidate, Rixi Moncada of Liberty and Refoundation (Libre), were to win—the alleged “narco-terrorists” of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro “will take control of yet another country, just like they did with Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.”
“Whoever defends democracy and fights against Maduro is Tito Asfura,” the US Republican president insisted, adding that “normally the intelligent people of Honduras” would reject Moncada and choose his preferred candidate. “But the communists are trying to deceive the people by putting forward a third candidate, Salvador Nasralla,” of the Liberal Party.
“Nasralla is no friend of freedom. Almost a communist, he helped [current president] Xiomara Castro by running as her vice-presidential candidate. They won, and he helped Castro win. Then he resigned and now pretends to be anti-communist just to split Asfura’s vote. The people of Honduras must not be fooled again,” Trump asserted.
“The only true friend of freedom in Honduras is Tito Asfura… I cannot work with Moncada and the communists, and Nasralla is not a reliable ally for freedom — he cannot be trusted,” Trump declared.
In a tone similar to the warning he issued last month—when he said the US would not be “generous” with Argentina if the ruling party lost legislative elections, by forfeiting the US $40 billion bailout to “anarcho-capitalist” Javier Milei—he concluded: “I hope the people of Honduras vote for freedom and democracy, and elect Tito Asfura as president!”
This is Washington’s most forceful statement so far, though not the first. Previously, US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau warned that the Trump administration would respond “quickly and firmly to any attack on the integrity of the democratic process in Honduras.”
The warning came amid domestic tension in the Central American country, where the three frontrunners (Nasralla, Asfura, and Moncada) have all claimed that electoral fraud may be imminent.
(RT News)
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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Cameron Baillie is an award-winning journalist, editor, and researcher. He won and was shortlisted for awards across Britain and Ireland. He is Editor-in-Chief of New Sociological Perspectives graduate journal and Commissioning Editor at The Student Intifada newsletter. He recently began news translation and proofreading work with The Orinoco Tribune. He spent the first half of 2025 living, working, and writing in Ecuador.
