TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Hondurans will elect a new president Sunday while still grappling with U.S. Donald Trump’s sudden intervention in what was expected to be a close contest, the latest signal of the United States’ renewed interest in Latin America.

Among the five presidential candidates on the ballot, polls indicated three had a chance to win and were finishing in close competition.

They are Rixi Moncada, 60, who served as finance and later as defense secretary in the current administration of President Xiomara Castro before leaving to run for president for the social democrat LIBRE or Liberty and Re-foundation party; Salvador Nasralla, who is making his fourth bid for the presidency, this time as the candidate for the conservative Liberal Party; and former Tegucigalpa Mayor Na

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