Six days after the election, the winner of the presidential race has still not been declared by the beleaguered electoral commission (TSE), which is controlled by Hernández’s National party. “The fraud can no longer just be called fraud,” Eugenio Sosa, a sociologist and political analyst, told the Guardian. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Relatives of Kimberly Fonseca who was shot during a protest mourn next to her coffin in Tegucigalpa. Military police units were patrolling the streets of Tegucigalpa, where no unrest had been reported by Saturday afternoon. Human rights groups fear that a new terror law, approved weeks before the election, will be used to quell dissent.

Source: The Guardian December 02, 2017 21:14 UTC