00:00Several delegations of international observers are arriving in Honduras who will keep their eyes on the elections next Sunday.
00:09Many of them are questioning the attempts at intervention by movements, countries and figures of global far-right
00:16who seek to obstruct the democratic process of a sovereign nation.
00:22From Teutigalpa, our correspondent Roberto Gopresa has the details.
00:26More than 6.5 million Hondurans have been called to participate in Sunday's general elections.
00:35Ahead of the vote, official sectors have denounced plans of fraud and international interference promoted by the right-wing bipartisan bloc.
00:43The director of the Center for Cooperation and International Exchange find it strange that abroad there is a talk of possible unrest,
00:49when the reality here is different.
00:56I've been here for four days, and this country is absolutely calm, it must be said.
01:02People are safeguarding their vote, defending their vote, and that seems to me to be exactly what every people does, right?
01:09The only aggressiveness I see is from a very hard, very strong right-wing, which does not acknowledge any of the achievements that have been made.
01:22Philip Ristick is a French political scientist, author of the book Venezuela, the Democracy That Is,
01:34a critique of the spread of false information in media and social networks about Venezuela's 2024 electoral process.
01:40He notes with concern that the same script is now being applied in Honduras.
01:44Because the narrative is the same, there is a government, a power located on the radical left,
01:51that seeks a better distribution of wealth, more social justice, more economic justice, and environmental justice, as well.
01:59And that troubles a part of the political spectrum in Venezuela, as in Honduras, which is commonly called the oligarchy.
02:06Other international observers reacted with indignation to the intervention of far-right figures,
02:17such as U.S. Congresswoman MarĂa Elvira Salazar and Venezuelan politician MarĂa Corina Machado.
02:26I see this as a very serious attempt at intervention in matters that belong solely to the sovereignty of the Honduran people.
02:33I believe the most recent example we can see of this strategy was in Venezuela.
02:45Precisely to create an atmosphere that would allow sectors dissatisfied with the results to reject the people's verdict,
02:51proclaim themselves winners, and thereby drag the country into a spiral of political instability.
02:57The National Electoral Council has planned for more than 6,000 observers, both national and international,
03:09to be deployed throughout the country to verify the conduct of the process.
03:16Hondurans will go to the polls next Sunday to elect their new president, members of the National Congress,
03:21mayors, and deputies to the Central American Parliament.
03:24That's why.
03:25But for the change heaven to be put down for all longer longer in the first time,
03:25andacles, depending on the way of hearing...
03:28Government of the Nationalbaurn students,
03:29It depends on the beginning to be-
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