00:00On November 30th, Honduras will not just pick a new president, it will choose its political
00:06destiny for the next century.
00:09It is the responsibility of the United States government and this committee, the Foreign
00:13Affairs Committee of the United States Congress, to ensure that in Honduras, freedom and democracy
00:19will prevail.
00:21Four years ago, the people of Honduras elected a socialist president called Xiomara Castro.
00:28Madame Castro has been a loyal follower, in her own words, of Fidel Castro in Cuba and
00:33Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
00:35Do I have to explain to this audience what those two murderers did to their countries?
00:40Maybe not, because everybody knows.
00:43Unfortunately and because of that poisonous ideology that the current president has embraced,
00:49Madame Castro has pushed her country into an economic abyss.
00:53And why do I say that?
00:55You can keep the door closed please.
01:12And why do I say that?
01:14First, President Castro welcomed Communist China and even suggested that she may give Palmerola
01:21air base to the Chinese.
01:23The Palmerola base is the key United States military installation in Latin America.
01:29Second, she broke relations with Democratic Taiwan just to please China.
01:33Third, she gave another thug called Nicodás Maduro in Venezuela the highest medal of honor
01:40that the country can give to a civilian, the order of Francisco Morazán.
01:44I am sure that Morazán has to be rolling in his grave.
01:48And fourth, flooded the country with Cuban spies dressed as doctors, teachers, and psychologists.
01:55Ten days from today, ten days from today, the fate of Honduras is in the hands of three candidates.
02:01Papito Alaorden, whose real name is Nasri Asfura, Salvador Nasralla, and Rixi Moncara.
02:10Mrs. Moncara is the heir to the communist throne picked by the current president.
02:15Mrs. Moncara says that Cuba is a democracy and that she wants Honduras to look just like Cuba.
02:21Well, this is the way Cuba looks today.
02:28I'm sure that Hondurans would not want that in their streets.
02:33At this hour, the voters of Honduras are at a crossroads and they should think long and
02:38hard who are they going to vote for.
02:41As the chairwoman of the Western Hemisphere subcommittee within the House Foreign Affairs
02:45Committee of the United States Congress, I am not telling you who to vote for.
02:50All I am saying is do not elect a communist.
02:55Communism is beautiful in theory and miserable in practice.
02:59Look at Venezuela.
03:01After 25 years or 25 years ago, the Venezuelans were oblivious to the same warning I am saying
03:09today and not even having the largest reserves of oil in the world save them from the economic
03:16catastrophe they are living today.
03:20íanetudiomís number one goal is to corrode the democratic institutions especially the
03:26armed forces.
03:29The Honduran armed forces, the most powerful institutions in the country, are demanding direct
03:34access to private voter information.
03:37The armed forces are demanding who voted for who.
03:43This is not the military, which has made Hondurans proud for over 100 years.
03:50At the same time, or the same military, I should say, that pulled Mel Salaya, the husband
03:56of the current president, out of his bed in his PJs, sent him to Costa Rica in the middle
04:01of the night for wanting to do the same thing that his wife is trying to do right now in
04:07post-communism in Honduras.
04:1115 years ago, the military saved their country from communism, and today, they need to do
04:17the same thing.
04:19So this committee is sending a very clear message, supported by the State Department and the Trump
04:24Administration, that Honduras must hold a free, fair, and transparent elections.
04:30No intimidation, no stolen ballots, no foreign interference.
04:36The eye of the United States is upon Honduras this November 30th.
04:41In the United States, there are more than one million Hondurans, hundreds of thousands
04:45of them in my own district, Florida District No. 27, at the heart of the city of Miami.
04:51Oh, I know Hondurans very well.
04:54They are good people, hardworking, God-fearing, law-abiding, who have been beaten by a political
05:00class that has not treated them well for decades.
05:04They deserve someone who is not a communist, who will put the future of Honduras first,
05:09and that includes the two right candidates as well.
05:13Whomever wins these elections needs to put the fatherland above their own personal interests.
05:19Honduras' political class admires the American political and economic system.
05:24Now it's time for them to start copying it.
05:28The nation's treasury is not their own personal checking account.
05:32The well-being of the average Honduran should be their only interest.
05:38Honduras deserves better.
05:39May the Lord guide them this November 30th.
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