During an extraordinary session of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), convened to analyze the delays in the vote count of the elections held on November 30 in Honduras, the US representative, Michael Kozak, categorically rejected the accusations of alleged interference by President Donald Trump Trump in favor of nationalist candidate Nasry Asfura and defended Washington's position.

Amid a climate of political tension and questions surrounding the Honduran electoral process, the United States denied on Monday before the Organization of American States (OAS) having interfered in the Honduran general elections, despite President Donald Trump's public support days before the election for the conservative candidate Nasry "Tito" Asfura.

“A social media post by our president expressing his preference is not electoral interference, since the people of Honduras were free to cast their votes,” Kozak told the delegates.

“We reject the unfounded accusations of manipulation,” he added, while reiterating his country's support for the integrity of the democratic processes in the Central American nation.

He also reiterated U.S. support for the integrity of the democratic processes in Honduras: “The Honduran people must not be deprived of their election for the next president. We will respond decisively to those who wish to challenge its will.” Following this, the representative condemned those who “call for violence.”

The US representative’s statements came after the intervention of the head of the OAS electoral mission, Eladio Loizaga, who warned that certain pronouncements by international leaders may have increased uncertainty and distrust in the process.

Messages that raised tension

The controversy intensified starting on November 27, three days before the elections,When Trump posted a message on his Truth Social account calling Asfura “the only true friend of freedom in Honduras” and assuring that, if he won, they could “work together to fight the narco-communists.”

In the same post, the president lashed out at the ruling party candidate, Rixi Moncada, whom he described as “close to communism,” and at Salvador Nasralla, whom he accused of trying to “deceive the people” to split the opposition vote.

A day later, Trump announced a pardon for former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year prison sentence in the United States for drug trafficking offenses, a decision that sparked harsh criticism from the Honduran government and was seen as a gesture of political pressure in the final stretch of the electoral process.

In Honduras, Parliament had already approved a resolution condemning what it called “interference” by the US president.

For his part, the Honduran representative to the OAS, Roberto Quesada, criticized some ambassadors of the organization and accused international sectors of “insulting officials they don't know” in order to curry favor with more powerful countries.