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By Gabriel Stargardter and Gustavo Palencia TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras faces a stark choice in Sunday's election between a tough militarized response to drug gang violence fueling the world's highest murder rate, and a swing to the left that could revive the political career of deposed leader Manuel Zelaya. No clear winner has emerged in a photo-finish finale that pits the ruling National Party's candidate, Juan Hernandez, who is head of Congress and considered to be Honduras' most powerful politician, against Zelaya's wife, Xiomara Castro. Castro promises to "refound" Honduras and level the playing field in a starkly inequitable society, where nearly half the population earns less than a dollar a day, sparking fears among the upper classes of expropriations and land grabs. "Simple." The left-leaning Castro, running for the Liberty and Refoundation Party, or LIBRE - a coalition of leftist politicians, unions and indigenous groups founded by Zelaya - would create a community police force and scale back the army's involvement.
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