Honduras: Audio Leaks Spark Scandal Ahead of Presidential Election

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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.

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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.

The US regime is blatantly meddling in Honduras’ election, to try to prevent the left-wing Libre Party from winning the vote on the 30th.

Right-wing Honduran politicians are openly conspiring with the US Congress.

In 2009, the US sponsored a military coup in Honduras.

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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.