With Nasry Asfura’s election and Trump’s backing, Honduras risks returning to its historical role as a US military, political and economic outpost used to project power across Central America.

Al Jazeera columnist.

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It’s smooth sailing these days for the United States and Honduras, the diminutive Central American nation and original “banana republic” that has just elected a new right-wing president, Nasry Asfura, to the delight of US sociopath-in-chief Donald Trump.