They demand sovereignty, justice, freedom and peace while criticizing his economic and land policies.
On the occasion of Independence Day, celebrated Sept. 15, Hondurans took to the streets in Tegucigalpa to demonstrate against the U.S.-backed President Nasry Asfura.
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Following a call by the Freedom and Refoundation Party (Libre), citizens took part in the mobilization carrying signs with slogans such as “Trump and La Racha Out,” “Independence Without Sovereignty Is a Lie,” “Honduras Must Be Respected” and “We Reject the Enclave and Privatization.”
Through those expressions, the peaceful popular mobilization demanded sovereignty, justice, freedom, and peace in opposition to the policies implemented by right-wing President Asfura, whom the demonstrators called on to resign.
Former presidential candidate Rixi Moncada questioned the meaning of national independence by pointing to issues such as the evictions facing Indigenous peoples, the high cost of basic food and fuel, and the vulnerability of Honduran migrants.
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Previously, on Sept. 12, thousands of Hondurans held a peaceful march to the presidential residence in Tegucigalpa, also rejecting Asfura’s policies. They demanded a cap on fuel prices and questioned measures implemented to the detriment of farming and Indigenous communities.
The demonstrators also denounced the illegitimacy of Asfura, attributing his rise to power to interference by U.S. President Donald Trump and an electoral fraud in which they allege the complicity of right-wing council members.
That fraud was also made possible by the intervention of Argentine operator Fernando Cerimedo through bot farms, as well as the return to Honduras of former President Juan Orlando Hernandez (2014-2022), who had been convicted of drug trafficking in the United States but was pardoned by Trump.
Protests against Asfura also took place on Lempira Day in July, when the Peasant, Indigenous and Popular Alliance demanded an end to the dispossession of ancestral territories. On that occasion, more than 70 groups held sit-ins and road blockades on key highways throughout the country.
During those actions, social sectors denounced the National Congress’ approval of a legal framework that facilitates the judicial prosecution of land and environmental defenders.
Among the regulations being challenged, they cited Decree 84-2026, which ambiguously expands the crime of terrorist association, and Decree 107-2026, which shields land designated for agro-industrial, energy and tourism sectors from public-use or agrarian-reform proceedings.
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