Nearly two years after Argentina elected Javier Milei as the first libertarian president in the world and six months after Ecuador re-elected its “law and order” President Daniel Noboa, the spotlight in the Western Hemisphere is now on Honduras and whether the Central American nation of 10.83 million will follow in what appears to be a swing to the right in formerly all-leftist Latin America.

Hondurans won’t choose a successor to termed-out President Xiomara Castro — the nation’s first woman president and wife of former President Manuel Zelaya — until November 30.  Bolivia and Chile, both of which will elect new presidents on August 17 and November 16 respectively, are also countries in which right-of-center candidates are better-than-even money to be elected.

But Honduras is drawing special attention in large part because the early front-runner in the race, former Tegucigalpa Mayor Nasry “Tito” Asfura, is a genuine fiscal and cultural conservative who is inarguably the antithesis of Castro and Zelaya — the conjugal far-leftists having been mainstays Honduran politics for a generation. 

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