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    Honduran voters want to protest the president. Their options are a cast of characters

    Hondurans go to the polls Sunday, and many voters say they're undecided who they'll vote for. But one thing they do know is that they'll be casting a vote to punish the current National Party.
    by Carrie Kahn Nov 27, 2021 4 minutes
    A sticker on a wall in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, invites people to vote in the presidential elections on Sunday. Hondurans will elect a successor to President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was first elected in 2013.

    A colorful cast of characters is on Sunday's ballot for the next president of Honduras.

    The front-runner, one of the country's former first ladies, is being portrayed as a radical leftist bent on sending the small Central American nation into the arms of Venezuelan and Cuban communists. The ruling party's candidate is a long-time loyalist who claims he is "different," although he's been investigated for embezzling from public coffers. And the man trailing far behind in third place got out of a U.S. prison in time to register to run. He served three years on a money laundering conviction.

    "There are no good options," says Dilisia Carranza, 48, who sells electronics from a small storefront in the industrial city– or protest vote — against the ruling National Party.

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