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A man rides his scooter past a graffiti mocking Honduras President Porfirio Lobo as Pinocchio in Tegucigalpa yesterday. Honduras is holding a presidential vote today as the wife of an ousted leftist leader fends off a late surge from the ruling party heavyweight and both vow a crackdown on drug violence. The winner of today’s election will have to steady state finances, clean up a corrupt police force and fight drug gangs that have given the impoverished country the highest homicide rate in the world of more than 85 people per 100,000.
