Without leaders from other nations
The international community will be represented at the inauguration of Asfura, winner of the general elections of November 30th, by the ambassadors and heads of organizations accredited in Tegucigalpa. Asfura, of Palestinian origin and a native of Tegucigalpa, where he was born on June 8, 1958, achieved his election as president of Honduras in the twelfth general elections held in the country since the return to democracy in 1980, after almost two decades of military regimes. The new leader, who three days before the November 30 elections received the backing of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, leads a National Party that returns to power after three consecutive terms, between 2010 and 2022, marked by accusations of corruption and drug trafficking, the last eight years with Juan Orlando Hernández as ruler. Hernández’s second term was marked by his re-election as president, even though the Constitution of the Republic does not allow it under any modality, and his extradition in April 2022 to the United States, where Justice sentenced him in June 2024 to 45 years in prison for drug trafficking and weapons, interrupted on December 1st by a pardon granted by Trump.Nasry Asfura, supported by the United States and Israel
Asfura will assume power in a country that already exceeds ten million inhabitants, of whom more than 60% live in poverty, with high rates of criminal violence, deficient education and health systems; corruption, thousands of peasants demanding land, human rights violations and a society that was divided after the coup d’état of June 28, 2009, against the then president, Manuel Zelaya, among other problems. Many of the problems Asfura has promised to solve with “work and more work”, promotion of national and foreign investments, new jobs and the closure of some state institutions, among other measures. In addition, Asfura hopes to count on the support of the United States and Israel for the development of several development projects, countries he visited two weeks ago in his capacity as president-elect of Honduras. In terms of foreign policy, Asfura has not yet announced whether or not he will break relations with China, established during the Xiomara Castro administration, who also broke with Taiwan.The new head of the Honduran Executive, a construction businessman who was mayor of Tegucigalpa for two consecutive terms between 2014 and 2022, has also been a councilor and secretary of the Social Investment Fund.
