CENTRAL AMERICA IN MINUTES, Ep. 43: With under three months until election day in Honduras, alarm bells are sounding: lawfare and institutional capture threaten the credibility of the process amid efforts to veto civil society as electoral monitors. The chief campaign finance auditor has no budget.

In a country where political violence has stained elections for the better part of two decades, four mayoral candidates have already been assassinated. Parts of the two largest cities remain under a state of exception suspending rights, while the three leading parties dabble in early accusations of fraud.