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Webinar: Close-up on Honduras Elections 2025
On November 30, Hondurans go to the polls to choose a new President, Congress, and municipal authorities. The stakes are high. The charged political climate of recent months has given rise to serious concerns about democracy eroding as malign forces maneuver.
Just four years ago, Hondurans voted decisively to end a series of U.S.-backed post-coup d’état governments. President Juan Orlando Hernández was the last in a series of those U.S.-backed “golpista” presidents, and in the wake of his party’s resounding defeat, he was charged with narco-trafficking and extradited to the United States.
In the four years since, the country has grappled with instability. Conservative factions inside Honduras are echoing the rhetoric of key members of the U.S. Congress, particularly within the House Foreign Affairs Committee, raising concerns about external influence. Although Marco Rubio’s State Department insists the U.S. will not interfere in foreign elections, Honduran social movements and international allies remain skeptical.
This webcast is hosted by Global Exchange, CESPAD, and the Honduras Solidarity Network (HSN). We will talk about both the domestic and international factors shaping the 2025 elections in Honduras, who the players are, and discuss the challenges—sometimes wrenching choices—Honduran social movements face, all within the context of the broader struggle to defend democracy internationally.
Finally, we will share an invitation from CESPAD, Global Exchange, and HSN to join a small international observer contingent for an election observation mission in November. We’ll discuss application procedures, mission, costs, and our current risk assessment.
Panelists & Moderator
- Amelia Frank-Vitale – Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Princeton University. An anthropologist of migration and violence in Central America and Mexico, her forthcoming book Leave If You Can explores how Honduran youth navigate life after deportation and resist border externalization.
- Karen Spring – Honduras-based Coordinator of the Honduras Solidarity Network (HSN). Like in 2021, she is working alongside Global Exchange and CESPAD during the November 2025 elections to assist with monitoring and observation. Karen has lived and worked in Honduras for over 15 years and is a PhD student at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
- Lucía Vigil Saybe – Part of the Center for Democracy Studies’ (CESPAD) technical team. She is the coordinator of the 2025 Election Observation Mission.
- Moderator: Ted Lewis – Co-Executive Director of Global Exchange, with 35 years of experience designing advocacy campaigns and grassroots delegations across the Americas.