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Honduras Starts Partial Recount in Tight Presidential Election Backed by Trump

Tico Times - December 19, 2025

Honduras

Honduras Sticks with Nighttime Border Shutdowns, Complicating Travel for Visitors

Latin America

How does Trump’s blockade affect Venezuela’s oil?

Latin America

Venezuelan Migrants Are Key to Latin America’s Economy, IOM Says

El Salvador

Salvadoran Military Faces Trial for El Mozote Massacre After Decades of Impunity

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A group of Salvadoran military officers, including a former defense minister, will be put on trial for the massacre of nearly one thousand civilians...

Guatemala

Guatemala Faces Security Crisis After Mayor’s Murder in Festive Parade

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Gunmen shot and killed the mayor of Masagua during a Christmas parade in Guatemala on Saturday evening, wounding one of his bodyguards in the...

Latin America

Trump Crackdown Sends More Migrants Back to Venezuela

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A plane from the United States landed Friday at Venezuela’s main airport carrying 172 deportees, at a moment when the country has been left...

Honduras

Former Trump Campaign Chief Involved in Honduras Politics

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Trump's former campaign manager, Brad Parscale, provided advice to the campaign of Nasry Asfura, a right-wing presidential candidate in Honduras endorsed by the U.S....

Honduras

Why Honduras Still Has No President Days After a Razor Thin Vote

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Hondurans are on edge. Three days after the elections, they still don't know who will govern them for the next four years due to...

Latin America

US Troops Stage New Combat Drills in Panama as Venezuela Standoff Grows

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A group of US soldiers is carrying out combat exercises on Panama’s Caribbean coast, the third drill of its kind so far this year,...

Honduras

Trump Pardon Frees Ex Honduran President Hernández Before Crucial Vote

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Juan Orlando Hernández has a kind of luck that borders on a miracle. Born in a very poor household, he rose to become president...

Honduras

Trump Threatens Serious Consequences Over Razor Thin Honduras Presidential Race

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US President Donald Trump warned Monday of “serious consequences” if a supposed attempt to “change” the results of Honduras’s presidential election is confirmed, as...

Honduras

Honduras Presidential Contest Tightens for Candidate Backed by Trump

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Nasry Asfura, the candidate backed by US president Donald Trump, and his rival Salvador Nasralla, also from the right, remained in a tight battle...

Latin America

Trump Warns Venezuela Airspace is Completely Closed as Tensions Escalate

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United States President Donald Trump warned this Saturday that the airspace over and around Venezuela should be considered completely closed, in the context of...