Election will test democracy in a newly violent Honduras threatened by violent smuggling gangs

Poverty, coup legacy in play as Honduras picks new president

AFP

Some 5.4 million Hondurans cast votes Sunday in a presidential election with a new chance of breaking the century-old dominance of right-wing parties. Four years after her husband was ousted in a coup, leftist Xiomara Castro, 54, is running neck-and-neck. | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles