Although US-friendly President Juan Orlando Hernandez had been tipped to win, partial results show an upset, with gregarious television star Salvador Nasralla leading. “I need to see what benefit there is for Honduras from having a base like Palmerola,” Nasralla said. The US presence was established in the 1980s to help the United States in its fight against left-wing insurgencies in Central America. “When the United States passes me its list of people it wants to extradite … I‘m not even going to look at it. “I‘m willing to extradite ex-presidents, lawmakers, ministers.”Honduras is riddled with corruption that breeds on rampant impunity, drug trafficking and gang violence.

Source: The Express Tribune November 29, 2017 05:15 UTC