Overview
- At an extraordinary OAS session, U.S. Undersecretary Christopher Landau urged member states to demand a transparent, lawful vote and warned that Honduras is already in crisis.
- Landau called for concrete guarantees including an independent CNE, no military role in counting, and preventing select committees from usurping the full Congress.
- Honduras began a five-day electoral silence ahead of the Nov. 30 vote, with more than six million eligible voters and no runoff to decide the presidency.
- The CNE rejected the Armed Forces’ request for copies of result sheets, heightening concerns about overreach beyond their logistics-only mandate.
- The EU observation mission expanded to 138 observers nationwide, while Honduran officials rejected grounds for OAS intervention even as Mexico’s president said Xiomara Castro asked that the popular will be respected without external interference.