Published at: 29/08/2024 08:46 PM

The president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, asserted that she would not allow the extradition treaty signed with the United States is used “to intimidate or blackmail the Armed Forces” of that Central American country.

“I want to promise the Honduran people: no more coups d'etat and that I will not allow the instrument of extradition to be used to intimidate or blackmail the Honduran Armed Forces,” said the president for whom “governments imposed by force mean: violence, exile, persecution, human rights violations.”

He rejected the threats made by the US ambassador to Tegucigalpa, Laura F. Dogu, who charged the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces, Roosvelt Hernández, and against the Minister of Defense, José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, for meeting with the Venezuelan Defense Minister, Vladimir Padrino López, whom he called a “drug trafficker ”.

Castro harshly criticized Doug's statements against members of his administration. “The interference and interventionism of the United States, as well as its intention to direct the politics of Honduras through its Embassy and other representatives, is intolerable,” he wrote in his X account.

In the same way, he considered that Washington is assaulting, ignoring and “violating with impunity the principles and practices of international law, which promote respect for the sovereignty and self-determination of peoples, non-intervention and universal peace”, and he instructed his foreign minister, Enrique Reina, to “denounce the extradition treaty” signed with the United States

Mazo News Team