This is John Batchel.

Conversation with my colleague Mary Anastasia Grady of the America's page column for the

Walser Journal editorial page about Honduras, a small country in Central America facing an election

at the end of the month of November.

However, the choices are narrowing and there is risk, risk of the election being stolen

by none other than Venezuela. Here Mary describes the setup. There is a president now named Castro.

She is associated with the previous president who is convicted of drug trafficking.

However, President Castro looking to clean up the country.

And Mary tells us a story about how this gets to the risk of a stolen election.

Much more of this later tonight.

Mary Anastasia Grady, Honduras, alleged to be linked to the narco

traffickers. And after he stepped down in 2022, the U.S. asked to have him extradited, and he was,

and he was convicted in federal court here in the U.S. for drug trafficking.

So there was this terrible Paul that fell over government,

and she ran claiming that she was going to clean up all the corruption and so forth.

So even though she had this close association with the hard left dictatorships in the region,

Hondurans went for her because she was promising to give them clean government.

And that has not happened, but the part, and she's not running for re-election, but the party she's in,

which is called Libre, which means free in Spanish, has a candidate on the ballot,

and they don't want to leave power. So even though their candidate is trailing badly behind

two other candidates, there's a feeling because of different things they've been doing

that they're going to try to steal the election.

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