Tensions are rising in Honduras, where the electoral court still hasn’t released the full results from Sunday’s presidential election. On Tuesday, the court released new partial results, showing the gap between opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla and conservative President Juan Orlando Hernández has narrowed, with Nasralla now leading by only 2 percentage points. Supporters and members of Nasralla’s coalition party, called the Alliance Against the Dictatorship, are accusing the government of trying to rig the vote in favor of President Hernández, who is backed by the United States. This is Guillermo Valle, the head of the Innovation and Unity Party, which is part of the coalition.
Guillermo Valle: “We’ve sent out an urgent alert. For us, it’s critical. It’s very serious, this situation where the conspiratorial traitors of the government are practically carrying out a coup d’état.”
We’ll have more on the situation in Honduras later in the broadcast.