TEGUCIGALPA : No More Mud
Honduras holds presidential elections Sunday, after a negative campaign dedicated more to an exchange of insults between the two leading candidates than to issues.
Oswaldo Ramos Soto of the ruling National Party and Carlos Roberto Reina of the Liberal Party are locked in a tight race to succeed President Rafael L. Callejas. Neither is expected to depart substantially from Callejas’ centrist pro-business policies.
Ramos Soto, a former university rector and Supreme Court president, has been accused by human rights groups of collaborating with an army that in the 1980s was responsible for the deaths or disappearance of leftists--a charge he denies.
Reina is a lawyer long involved in party politics. Two other small-party candidates, Olban Valladares and Marcos Orlando Iriarte, are also running for president.
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