Allan Nairn: United States Tries—But Fails—to Stop to Stop Hondurans from Protesting Election Fraud

On Friday, the United States congratulated incumbent Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernindez on what it said was his re-election. This came one month into a standoff between the Honduras government and the opposition over the disputed vote tally, and days after the government-controlled election commission declared Hernindez the winner. Previously, the opposition front, the Alliance Against the Dictatorship, as well as the Organization of American States have called for new elections amid reports of widespread fraud, saying the victory was "impossible" to verify. Last week, opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet officials at the OAS and State Department, but U.S. officials claimed he did not present evidence to back up his allegations of fraud. We speak with Allan Nairn, award-winning investigative journalist who has just returned Saturday from Honduras. His latest story for The Intercept is headlined "U.S. Spent Weeks Pressuring Honduras Opposition to End Protests Against Election Fraud."