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Hundreds of demonstrators blocked streets in the Honduras capital Tuesday in support of the leftist presidential candidate, who is claiming victory though authorities say the conservative won. He was among some 400 student-aged supporters of leftist Xiomara Castro, who has claimed victory in Sunday's presidential race though electoral officials say conservative Juan Orlando Hernandez beat her 34 to 29 percent, with 67 percent of polling stations tallied. Local government institutions are so weak and the police so corrupt that Honduras is on the brink of becoming a failed state. Gangs run whole neighborhoods, extorting businesses as large as factories and as small as tortilla stands, while drug cartels use Honduras as a transfer point for shipping illegal drugs, especially cocaine, from South America to the United States.
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