00:00Several delegations of international observers are arriving in Honduras who will keep their
00:05eyes on the elections next Sunday.
00:08Many of them are questioning the attempts at interventions by movements, countries and
00:12figures of the global far-right who seek to stop the democratic process of a sovereign
00:17nation.
00:18From Tegucigapa correspondent Roberto Gopresa gives us more details.
00:25More than 6.5 million Hondurans have been called to participate in Sunday's general elections.
00:30Ahead of the vote, official sectors have denounced plans of fraud and international interference
00:34promoted by the right-wing bipartisan bloc.
00:37The director of the Center for Cooperation and International Exchange find it strange that
00:42abroad there is a talk of possible unrest, when the reality here is different.
00:51I've been here for four days, and this country is absolutely calm, it must be said.
00:57People are safeguarding their vote, defending their vote, and that seems to me to be exactly
01:02what every people does, right?
01:09The only aggressiveness I see is from a very hard, very strong right-wing, which does not
01:14acknowledge any of the achievements that have been made.
01:22Philip Ristick is a French political scientist, author of the book Venezuela, the democracy
01:28that is, a critique of the spread of false information in media and social networks about
01:33Venezuela's 2024 electoral process.
01:35He notes with concern that the same script is now being applied in Honduras.
01:40As the narrative is the same, there is a government, a power located on the radical left, that
01:46seeks a better distribution of wealth, more social justice, more economic justice, and
01:52environmental justice, as well.
01:55And that troubles a part of the political spectrum in Venezuela, as in Honduras, which is commonly
02:00called the oligarchy.
02:07Other international observers reacted with indignation to the intervention of far-right figures, such
02:12as U.S. Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar and Venezuelan politician Maria Guadrino Machado.
02:21I see this as a very serious attempt at intervention in matters that belong solely to the sovereignty
02:26of the Honduran people, I believe the most recent example we can see of this strategy
02:31was in Venezuela.
02:32In Venezuela, just to create an atmosphere that would allow sectors dissatisfied with the
02:43results to reject the people's verdict, proclaim themselves winners, and thereby drag the country
02:49into a spiral of political instability.
02:58The National Electoral Council has planned for more than 6,000 observers, both national
03:03and international, to be deployed throughout the country to verify the conduct of the process.
03:11Members will go to the polls next Sunday to elect their new president, members of the National
03:15Congress, mayors, and deputies to the Central American Parliament.
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03:25In the US.
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03:29And in the US.
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