Honduras presidential election: a referendum on the nation’s corruption and drugs

The next congress will have the opportunity to elect a new supreme court, attorney general and state auditors

Hondurans head to the polls on Sunday in the first general election since US federal prosecutors laid out detailed evidence of intimate ties between drug smugglers and the Honduran state.

The country's past three presidents, as well as local mayors, legislators, police and military commanders have been linked to drug trafficking in what US prosecutors have described as a narco-state.