Salvador Nasralla, of the centrist Liberal Party, on Tuesday took a razor-thin lead in Honduras' presidential election over Nasry Asfura, the conservative candidate backed by U.S. President Donald Trump,

Chile’s leftist presidential candidate Jeannette Jara met with US head of state Donald Trump’s ambassador to the Latin American nation, the diplomat said on Wednesday following tensions between both nations.

Honduras’ homicide and unemployment rates have both improved during the past four years under outgoing President Xiomara Castro.

Continued four days after Hondurans voted in a tightly contested race marred by delays and allegations of fraud.

Trump said Nov. 28 that he planned to pardon the former Honduran leader, and a White House official confirmed Dec. 2 that the pardon had been issued.

Thepolitical opposition in Guinea-Bissau has accused President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of staging a coup to avoid defeat in the presidential election.