Honduras ratifies the electoral victory of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela

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Speech of Scarlet Ivette Romero, Ambassador of Honduras, at the ALBA-TCP Extraordinary Summit. teleSUR

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00:00But before this, I would like to give the floor to Her Excellency, the Ambassador of

00:09our Sister Republic of Honduras, sons and daughters of the great Francisco Morazán,

00:18Scarlett Yvette Romero Tantarero.

00:22She brings greetings from Honduras.

00:24Ambassador, you have the floor.

00:28Thank you very much for attending this meeting.

00:51Buenas tardes y buen provecho.

00:53Good afternoon.

00:57Enjoy your meal, everyone.

01:03Today, in these 12 summits of Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance

01:09for the Peoples of America, People's Trade Treaty, ALBA-TCP, where everyone present here

01:20today and via Zoom, to our comrades of Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, Antigua, Barbuda,

01:29St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, Grenada, St. Lucia, Venezuela,

01:37brothers and sisters, greetings to all of you.

01:44To our dear comrade and brother President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, host

01:50of these summits, Heads of State and Prime Ministers, brothers and sisters.

01:59On behalf of our noble people of Honduras, of the first government of popular resistance,

02:06on behalf of the first woman president in the history of our country, Iris Xiomara Castro Sarmiento.

02:14On behalf of a very dear friend of the peoples of the world, our eternal president, Manuel

02:22Zelaya Rosales, receive a fraternal and revolutionary embrace.

02:29On behalf of our president, her government, of our people, I would like to thank ALBA

02:34for the special invitation today to this summit that gathers us with brothers and sisters

02:40of the greater homeland of Bolivar and Morazán.

02:44Today I have the opportunity to be here as an ambassador and representative of the people

02:49and government of Honduras, but for the people of government of the Bolivarian Republic of

02:54Venezuela, and in this occasion, before this extraordinary summit of Heads of State and

03:01Government of ALBA-TCP, we reaffirm our commitment to strengthen the ties of brotherhood and

03:10friendship and solidarity with the heroic peoples of ALBA, based upon the principles

03:17and practices of international law, promoting human solidarity, respect for the self-determination

03:25of the peoples, non-intervention and strengthening of peace and universal democracy.

03:32We will never tire to repeat, brothers and sisters, and to thank infinitely their support

03:40to the countries of ALBA, which in the darkest times in which imperialist forces were united

03:48to destroy our constitution in Honduras, brave men such as our beloved and always remembered

03:56brother Hugo Chavez Prias, tireless comrades that at the time foreign minister and today

04:04the constitutional president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, among

04:09many others, other men and women, which unbreakable principles, men and women of the greater

04:17homeland, men and women who defended democracy at all costs, and who demanded to stop the

04:25pillage, the murder, and promoted the restoration of the rule of law in our country, Honduras,

04:34and who permanently waged a struggle for the return of President Manuel Zelaya Rosales

04:40at the airport of Tegucigalpa at the border with Nicaragua, which was essential for the

04:48return of President Zelaya in the midst of so much repression at the time, and during

04:54the struggle of popular resistance that emerged after the coup d'etat of 2009.

05:02Now we are here once again as observers and invited by ALBA, an association of countries

05:09that we love, respect, and admire. From our part, we can only make one thing clear, that

05:15from the Republic of Honduras, we will always advocate and tirelessly defend the processes

05:23of each country. The self-determination of the people is necessary to move forward in

05:29the construction of democracies that we aspire to have, real and genuine democracies that

05:35should always be a right for our Latin American countries and all around the world.

05:40Honduras knows and recognizes the democratic processes that the Venezuelan people has carried

05:50out in the past few years, a country that has carried out over 30 elections, if I'm

05:56not mistaken, in less than 25 years, and the electoral process of July 28th is not an exception.

06:04We congratulate once again the Constitutional President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros,

06:11to whom we wish the greatest of successes to continue to build and lead the processes

06:18for change in favor of each and every one of the Venezuelan people.

06:24We are certain from Honduras that Commander Chávez is from eternity happy from the men

06:30and women who continue to build and defend the dream of Bolívar, for which he fought

06:36so much. Alba has been, is, and will continue to be a shield of hope, of unity, of strength,

06:45an alliance of brothers and sisters to whom Honduras will be eternally grateful.

06:51And as our President says, we will never forget comrades that we continue to be a resistance

06:58until victory forever we will prevail.

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