Honduras: ‘We will defend the processes of each nation and President Maduro’

Caracas, August 26, 2024 – The Ambassador of the Republic of Honduras accredited to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Scarleth Romero, affirmed this Monday at the 11th Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) that her country will always defend the processes unique to each nation.

“I am grateful for the special invitation today to the great homeland of Bolívar and Morazán. Today, I am granted the opportunity to be here as the ambassador and representative of the people and government of Honduras in front of the people and government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and on this occasion at this extraordinary summit of Heads of State and Government of ALBA. We reaffirm our commitment to always strengthen the bonds of brotherhood and solidarity with the worthy and heroic brotherly peoples,” the diplomat expressed.

Present at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, where the summit was held via videoconference, Romero recalled that Honduras, like the Alliance, defends the principles and practices of International Law, as well as human solidarity, respect for the self-determination of peoples, non-intervention, and the strengthening of peace and universal democracy.

“We will not be tired of repeating and infinitely thanking the support of the brotherly member countries of ALBA, who, in the darkest moments when imperialist forces united to overthrow and shatter our Constitution in Honduras, brave men like our dear and always remembered friend and comrade Hugo Chávez Frías defended democracy at all costs, demanded an end to the plundering and killings, and firmly promoted the restoration of the rule of law in our country,” she recalled.

She added: “Now we are here again as observers and guests of ALBA, an association of countries we care about. We can only make it clear that from the Republic of Honduras, we advocate for and will always defend the self-determination of peoples, which is necessary to advance in the construction of democracies.”

Romero stated that Honduras knows and recognizes the democratic processes that the Venezuelan people have carried out in recent years, “a country that has had, if I am not mistaken, President Maduro, more than 30 elections in less than 25 years, including the electoral process of July 28.”

On behalf of the Government of Honduras, Romero congratulated the constitutionally elected President, Nicolás Maduro, “to whom we wish the greatest success in continuing to build and lead the ongoing processes of change in favor of each and every Venezuelan”.