🇭🇳🌹❗️🇺🇸 — URGENT: The president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, asked U.S. President Donald Trump for “direct dialogue on the electoral process” in the Central American country after decreeing a new vote count in the Honduran elections, which resulted in the victory of the right-wing candidate Tito Asfura

“Mr. President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump:

I respectfully invite you to engage in a direct and frank dialogue about the electoral process in Honduras, particularly regarding your public statements on the social network X in favor of the citizen Nasry Asfura, which negatively influenced the development of the democratic process and affected our candidate.

At the same time, I address the Honduran people to explain the reasons why I sanctioned Legislative Decree No. 58-2025, approved by 69 deputies of the National Congress, through which Honduras’s sovereignty is reaffirmed and the National Electoral Council (CNE) is ordered to count the votes and records from the elections held last November 30.

Reasons for my decision:

1- Because the National Electoral Council has unjustifiably refused to conduct the scrutiny of 4,774 records, which represent the votes of 1,558,689 citizens at the three electoral levels.
This omission usurps popular sovereignty by disregarding, without legal cause, the votes of more than one million Hondurans who went to the polls. It constitutes a serious violation of the Constitution of the Republic, which I am obliged to uphold and defend until the last day of my mandate, which ends, as mandated by the Constitution and as I have promised, on January 27, 2026, not one day more and not one day less.

2- Because the CNE did not resolve 292 challenges filed in due time and form at the national level, related to inconsistencies, tampering with records, stacked ballots, stuffed ballot boxes, more than 500,000 votes lacking biometric backing, and alterations of the TREP system, fraud, and vote-buying, leaving candidates at all three electoral levels in a state of absolute defenselessness.
Worse still, the Electoral Justice Tribunal (TJE), in open violation of the law, without assembling its full bench and acting with only two magistrates, denied the fundamental right to the counting of the votes cast and of 435 ballot boxes corresponding to the mayor of the capital, Jorge Aldana, and several other candidates.

3- Because more than one million voters have been left in a state of defenselessness, disregarding the legal framework that mandates and requires the counting of all votes, of every record, and of every Polling Station.

4- Because I will not be an accomplice to the institutional cynicism of electoral bodies created to guarantee the right to vote and be elected, which, after the painful history of frauds that Honduras has experienced, especially in 2017, have once again abdicated in the face of foreign interference, in an environment of threats to sovereign states.

Honduran people:
What is happening is not a crisis of laws; it is a crisis of ethics, morality, and democratic and republican courage. It is the abandonment of the duty to build a nation upon the most sacred principle: national independence and the people’s vote.

5- Because the self-convened deputies, direct beneficiaries of this grave betrayal of democracy, also refuse to count the records and the votes, blocking the path to electoral truth and burying the popular will.

Finally, in view of the false information circulating and the recent message from the Department of State, I consider it indispensable to formally invite President Donald J. Trump to a hearing or direct call, to address, with responsibility, mutual respect, and transparency, the electoral situation in Honduras.”

Xiomara Castro de Zelaya (@XiomaraCastroZ) on 𝕏 🖇

🇦🇷🇧🇴🇨🇷🇪🇨🇬🇹🇵🇾🇵🇪🇩🇴❌🇭🇳🌹 — Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru, and the Dominican Republic express their “rejection” of the order issued by the president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, calling for a general recount of votes while “disregarding” the authority of the National Electoral Council (CNE).

“JOINT STATEMENT
The undersigned countries express our firm rejection of the decree sanctioned by President Xiomara Castro, which orders a general recount, disregarding the authority of the National Electoral Council and affecting democratic institutional order.
We also repudiate the acts of violence carried out against members of the opposition last Thursday and any act of political violence that seeks to alter the result expressed at the polls by the Honduran people.
At the same time, we reaffirm our recognition of the proclamation issued by the competent electoral authority regarding the official results that declared Nasry Asfura president-elect of the Republic of Honduras, following elections validated by international observation missions that confirmed the will of millions of Hondurans freely expressed in the elections held last November 30.
The undersigned states call on all Honduran political forces to respect the democratic order, guarantee a peaceful transition, and prioritize dialogue, and we trust that the Honduran people will know how to defend the values of freedom and democracy.

Argentine Republic
Plurinational State of Bolivia
Republic of Costa Rica
Republic of Ecuador
Republic of Guatemala
Republic of Paraguay
Republic of Peru
Dominican Republic

Lima, January 10, 2026”

🇧🇷 Interesting fact: Brazil immediately refused to sign the document.

#BREAKING | 🇱🇧 — Magnitude 3.9 earthquake hits Lebanon. Epicenter 40km from the capital Beirut.

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👑❌🇮🇷🇮🇷 — Hours ago, clashes erupted on Vakil Abad Boulevard in Mashhad, Iran, where protesters took cover behind makeshift barricades as security forces fired shots from a footbridge

👑👑📹 — Protesters seen hoisting the monarchist Lion and Sun flag during protests in Hamedan, Western Iran

🇮🇱📞🇺🇸❌🇮🇷❗️ — Reuters says that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu discussed the possibility of US intervention in Iran in a phone call yesterday.

⚠️ Israel is on high alert for the possibility of US intervention in Iran

❌❌🕊 — Twitter has been, literally, suspended by X

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🦅 ‼️🇺🇸 Federal Prosecutors Are Said to Have Opened Inquiry Into Fed Chair Powell

The investigation, which centers on renovations of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters in Washington, signals an escalation in the long-running clash between President Trump and the chair.

The U.S. attorney’s office in the District of Columbia has opened a criminal investigation into Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, over the central bank’s renovation of its Washington headquarters and whether Mr. Powell lied to Congress about the scope of the project, according to officials briefed on the situation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/politics/jerome-powell-fed-inquiry-trump.html

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🇺🇸❌🇩🇰🇬🇱 — United States President Donald J. Trump on Greenland

"If we don't take Greenland, Russia or China will. And I'm not letting that happen!

One way or the other, we're going to have Greenland!"

🇺🇸📞🇻🇪🗽 — US President Donald J. Trump says that he will likely meet with Maria Corina Machado this week:

"Mr. President, when will you meet with María Corina Machado?"

Trump:

"I don't know, I heard Tuesday or Wednesday. I look forward to it."

🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇮🇷🌐❗️ — According to Forbes, Iran has begun using military-grade jamming systems to disrupt and block access to Starlink satellite internet.

🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷📹 — Today, January 12, 2025, for the Third Day in a Row, Pro-Islamic Republic Protests organized by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps started across Iran

A Video of the IR supporters in Tehran can be seen chanting:

"Labbayka Ya Khamenei, Labbayka Ya Hussein", translated as "At your service, O Khamenei! At your service, O Hussein!"