Caracas, June 28, 2024.- “Today is a day to celebrate the resilience of the people of Honduras and Latin America”, expressed the Venezuelan Head of State and Government, Nicolás Maduro Moros, during a message sent to the second edition of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) Social Forum 2024.

In this message, President Maduro also praised the courage of the Bolivian people, who took to the streets to support President Luis Arce, who maintained an exemplary and brave attitude.

“Just a few hours ago, there was an attempted coup in Bolivia. Who were the promoters? Who financed them? From Venezuela, we have no doubt: always the same ones, but there the Bolivian people went to the streets,” he asserted.

The Venezuelan dignitary detailed that the first thing his Bolivian counterpart did was to call the social leader, Evo Morales, to warn him, and that despite the “political differences that have existed in recent months between both Bolivian leaders”, the first thing he did was grab a phone and call his comrade Evo Morales to say: take care, Evo, take care of yourself. Great kindness and courage from President Lucho Arce.

“By phone, I told President Lucho Arce: Our experience is that only the people save the people in the streets. And after ten minutes we spoke, I saw him on Telesur, Telesur: the same one that fought against the dictatorship in Honduras, against Roberto Micheletti, against Goriletti”, he emphasized, reiterating his greetings to the Bolivian people for defeating, “in record time, the attempt of a fascist coup. No more coups in Latin America,” he concluded.

At the end of the message, he added that the Venezuelan nation is preparing for “the great victory on July 28 and we will give this victory to the peoples of ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America), to the peoples of CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States), and to you, brothers and sisters of Honduras, President Xiomara, here we are, your brothers in Venezuela.”