An Argentinian is pretending to deceive the people from Honduras.

The presidential race in Honduras is going through a moment of maximum alarm. With the results in a technical virtual tie between candidate Nasry Asfura and his main opponent, Salvador Nasralla, any movement in the shadows can take on decisive relevance. 

The focus of international and domestic concern is now centered on one name: Fernando Cerimedo, the Argentinian advisor flagged by the Brazilian justice system.

Cerimedo’s presence in Asfura’s campaign has set off alarms, as his track record is associated with destroying public trust in electoral processes through the spread of massive lies.

Fernando Cerimedo is not just any political consultant. In Brazil, the Federal Police identifies him as a central figure in the plot that attempted to carry out a “coup d’état” to annul Lula da Silva’s victory. Specifically, he is accused of directing the “Center for Disinformation and Attacks on the Electoral System,” a group dedicated to:

• Spread false news about alleged “anomalies” and “fraud” in electronic voting machines.
  
• Create a parallel narrative to delegitimize the elections, as he did in a YouTube livestream watched by hundreds of thousands—content that Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court ordered to remove for disseminating lies.
  

Cerimedo’s strategy raises questions and chaos in a tight election. This takes on an unprecedented level of seriousness in Honduras.

In the midst of a vote-by-vote count that has the country on edge, the presence of an advisor with a background linked to anti-democratic plots suggests the risk of deploying a “political machine” to distort the truth and reverse the trend.

The concern is that the electoral fraud strategy attributed to Cerimedo by Brazil’s Federal Police could be replicated in Honduras elections : not necessarily by manipulating ballots, but by destroying trust in the results and creating a climate of instability that favors imposing a narrative over the real vote count.

Citizens and democratic forces remain vigilant. The presence of this “Argentinian gangster,” tied to the international far-right that attempts an institutional breakdown, is proof that in this election in Honduras the stake is the very integrity of democracy. The situation is extremely sensitive.