TEGUCIGALPA – Amanda Durón García supports herself and her 74-year-old mother with the roughly $7 she earns daily selling soft drinks, chips and gum on the campus of Honduras’ national university.

Her four adult children are married and out of the house, but every day is a struggle for the 57-year-old Durón, and she has little faith that the winner of Sunday’s presidential election will generate tangible changes in her life.

Recommended Videos

The homicide and unemployment rates have both improved during the past four years under outgoing President Xiomara Castro — even the International Monetary Fund applauded her administration’s fiscal responsibility — but whether voters will reward Castro’s handpicked successor, Rixi Moncada , from the democratic socialist Libre party for that

See Full Page