Leftist in Honduras presidential race says she is winner

The leftist who believes she was elected as Honduras' next president said that her campaign had been hit by massive fraud and that she would announce her plans in 48 hours. We will defend the will of the people as it was expressed at the polls," Xiomara Castro, wife of deposed ex-president Manuel Zelaya, wrote in a Twitter posting. Castro, who would be her country's first woman president and has not been seen in public since she claimed victory late Sunday, said her victory was decisive, but that the Supreme Electoral Tribunal manipulated 19 percent of the votes to favor her top rival Juan Orlando Hernandez of the ruling conservative party. Tensions were running high as the political standoff exploded into violence on the streets of Tegucigalpa earlier.