Original article: \u201cNo nos intimida Trump\u201d: expresidente de Honduras acusa injerencia extranjera y denuncia \u201cgolpe electoral\u201d contra Rixi Moncada<\/a><\/p>\n Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya accused U.S. President Donald Trump of foreign interference in the recent general elections held in the Central American country, claiming a \u00abelectoral coup\u00bb against Rixi Moncada, the candidate from the ruling Libertad y Refundaci\u00f3n (LIBRE) party.<\/p>\n In a message posted on his social media account on platform X, Zelaya alleged that there is an ongoing maneuver to distort the will of the people.<\/p>\n \u201cWith Donald Trump\u2019s interference and his pardon to JOH (former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez), the desperate bipartisan system is imposing an electoral coup against Rixi. But they are mistaken about history,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n As the general coordinator of the LIBRE party, he emphasized that the official party maintains strong support, and that his wife, current President of Honduras Xiomara Castro, holds significant public approval.<\/p>\n \u201cXiomara enjoys over 55% support due to her effective governance; Honduras respects her and the world acknowledges her,\u201d he noted, while asserting that the interference aims to sabotage Moncada\u2019s candidacy to hinder LIBRE\u2019s political project.<\/p>\n \u201cLIBRE presents an impeccable candidate, honest, sensitive, capable, strong-willed, and running a profoundly democratic campaign based on an economic proposal that liberates the people and breaks the privileges of the elites. That\u2019s why they resort to interference: because they cannot win fairly,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n Zelaya described the maneuver as \u00abblatantly\u00bb unjust and malicious foreign intervention to twist the popular will and thwart Rixi\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n \u201cBut they make the same mistake as always: underestimating the Honduran people, Rixi, and our ability to fight,\u201d warned Zelaya, who himself was a victim of a coup in 2009.<\/p>\n In his message, the former president also directly addressed Donald Trump, asserting that the Honduran people will not yield to external pressures.<\/p>\n \u201cMr. Donald Trump, we are not intimidated; we have resisted coups, monumental frauds, political assassinations, and persecution. If we survived a narco dictatorship, do you believe a tweet from you will bend us?\u201d he expressed on X.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can call us communists, socialists, insurgents, whatever you like. We are free Hondurans fighting for the self-determination of our people and for a worthy, just, and independent homeland. Neither Washington nor the oligarchy can decide for us. Mr. Donald Trump, those of us fighting for freedom stand tall; we are patriots, and no one surrenders,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n It is worth noting that just before the general elections in Honduras, the Republican mogul publicly endorsed right-wing businessman and National Party candidate Nasry Asfura, stating that if he won the election, his government would pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez, who has been convicted of drug trafficking in the United States.<\/p>\n The far-right figure also threatened not to collaborate with Honduras if Rixi Moncada were elected.<\/p>\n The Honduran electoral process has been engulfed in uncertainty, delays, and allegations of various irregularities that reinforce claims of an electoral fraud<\/a> warned about by candidate Rixi Moncada during a press conference last Monday.<\/p>\n Her allegations are supported by concrete evidence: a series of leaked audio recordings in which, according to the Public Ministry\u2019s investigation, National Party election advisor Cossette L\u00f3pez and other actors were planning to manipulate the process. The scheme, as outlined by Moncada, included interrupting data transmission, pressuring the U.S. embassy not to recognize a LIBRE victory, and announcing partial results favorable to create a \u00abpretext for challenging and suspending the process.\u00bb This is not just a simple irregularity; it is a modern technique of a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, transferred to the electoral arena, where there is an attempt to control dissemination and consensus agencies to create false legality.<\/p>\n Marlos Ochoa, an advisor to Honduras\u2019 National Electoral Council (CNE), confirmed these irregularities, stating that the results provided by the TREP system do not \u00abmaintain certainty or consistency,\u00bb while denouncing the lack of public access to preliminary results.<\/p>\n\u00abMr. Donald Trump, We Are Not Intimidated\u00bb<\/span><\/h3>\n
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