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By Gabriel Stargardter and Gustavo Palencia TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras' conservative ruling party candidate, Juan Hernandez, has won Sunday's presidential election after campaigning on a promise to tame rampant drug gang violence that has given the struggling nation the world's highest murder rate. Results showed the head of Congress beating his leftist challenger, Xiomara Castro, wife of ousted former leader Manuel Zelaya, thereby ensuring continuity for outgoing President Porfirio Lobo's right-leaning economic policies. A Hernandez victory snuffs out Zelaya's immediate hopes for a comeback to the main stage after he was deposed in a 2009 coup that plunged the Central American country into a political crisis and turned Honduras into an international pariah. Hernandez has repeatedly vowed to "do whatever it takes" to curb violence that has saddled Honduras with an annual murder rate of more than 85 per 100,000 inhabitants - at a time when public debt is mounting and the economy is stumbling.
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