Key aide to Honduran leftist candidate says China policy still open


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TEGUCIGALPA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Honduran presidential candidate Xiomara Castro has not made a final decision on whether to recognize China over Taiwan, a close aide said Tuesday, ahead of Sunday elections in which the question has emerged as a major issue. Castro, of the leftist Libre party, faces the ruling National Party's Nasry Asfura, in the Nov. 28 presidential vote, with a poll last month showing the opposition contender with a commanding double-digit lead. "There isn't a definitive decision," Hugo Noe, a Castro adviser who leads her platform-writing team, told Reuters. Two-term Tegucigalpa mayor Asfura has not taken a...