TEGUCIGALPA, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Honduran electoral workers were counting vote tallies by hand on Tuesday with the two presidential front runners, Nasry Asfura and Salvador Nasralla, still locked in a virtual tie, two days after an election marked by extraordinary U.S. interference.

As the count continues, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez of the National Party was released from a U.S. prison on Monday, where he was serving a 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking and firearms charges, a Federal Bureau of Prisons registry showed.

His release came after U.S. President Donald Trump urged Honduran voters to cast their ballots for the National Party candidate, Asfura, and said he would pardon Hernandez. A White House official confirmed on Tuesday that Trump had pardoned He

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