Ex-Military Chief Calls Electoral Probe a 'Smokescreen' for Violence

Published on Honduras Daily · May 31, 2026 · Originally reported May 31, 2026 by El Libertador

Retired General Roosevelt Hernández, former chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Attorney General's investigation into the flawed March 2025 primary elections is diverting attention from a surge in massacres that has left roughly 1,000 Hondurans dead so far this year.