Left's Defeat in Honduras and Trump's Growing Influence

A party leader reasons: 'Imagine Trump asking for votes for the opposition candidate in Tamaulipas.' Rixi Moncada, the Honduran government's candidate. The government does not see the election result as its own defeat, let alone that Claudia paid a price for receiving Xiomara a week earlier. Honduras is a second-order alliance in Mexico's system of international relations, and they clarify that Morena will always receive and offer public support to all left-wing candidates in all countries, which is different from partners of the first order such as the United States, Canada, and Spain. In the Ministry of National Defense, they believe that Trump's pardon for the former president of Honduras is another blow from the White House to the DEA. In this sense, Sheinbaum also received the candidate of Gustavo Petro in Colombia, Senator Iván Cepeda, and previously, the correista Luisa González who lost to Daniel Noboa in Ecuador. What is concerning Sheinbaum is the behavior of young people during this decline of progressivism and the entrenched idea that the left cannot manage the economy. Moncada came in a distant third, far from the fight between the two right-wing candidates. An important leader of Xiomara Castro's party told LPO: 'The impact of Trump's support was terrible, they got eighty points between the two right-wing candidates. It is the arrogance of the left,' he acknowledged. Marco Rubio's year. With this picture, among the political architects of the regional left, they begin to look with concern at the upcoming elections in Brazil next year and in Argentina in 2027 to curb the offensive of a right led by the White House. 'We are facing a total change of era with a Trump leadership that is enormous.' What worries Morena is the overwhelming effectiveness of Trump in forcing election results, as happened in Argentina, Ecuador, and now in Honduras, with an eye on the 2027 regional elections. 'We are facing a total change of era with a Trump leadership that is enormous.' In this sense, this left-wing leader confirmed that in Xiomara's government, they thought they would win by 8 or 9 points. The defeat of the left-wing candidate in Honduras was categorical and had its impact at the Palace. Except that it did not happen. President Claudia Sheinbaum received her Honduran counterpart, Xiomara Castro, a week before the election with all honors, as a form of support for her Liberty and Refoundation party. Xiomara went to that meeting with the certainty of a resounding victory for her candidate and former Minister of Defense, Rixi Moncada, who would ratify the path begun by her in 2021. Eighty points between the two right-wing candidates. 'There is no margin for error,' they acknowledge. Trump's support was terrible. 'The same thing happened in Ecuador. From that nickname, they say, only Mexico with the 4T and Brazil with Lula are saved.'