CELAC Social
Tegucigalpa, Jun 27 (RHC) Attendees at the second social forum of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) expressed their support on Thursday for the first female president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro.
Through a statement called the Declaration of Tegucigalpa, Celac Social extended its revolutionary support to the Liberty and Refoundation Party (Libre) and its general coordinator, Manuel Zelaya, whom they described as the vanguard of the Honduran people.
“Those of us who joined the work of the Celac Social call, the Sao Paulo Forum, the Puebla Group and these integration tables (…) where leaders, intellectuals and brothers with social conscience participated, met to pay a just tribute to the Honduran resistance,” he said.
In this way, the document also honored the peaceful struggle of the people against the 2009 coup d’état, until defeating the drug dictatorship that oppressed this Central American nation for 12 years and seven months.
He added that this coup was condemned internationally and represents not only a crime against humanity, but the biggest act of corruption in the country’s history that “led to the imposition of a narco-dictatorship that plundered the political coffers, increased poverty, marginalization and social inequality.”
“The Government of Xiomara Castro has initiated a profound program of social and political reforms to refound the Honduran State, restore its strength, reactivate the economy, promote education and guarantee life, freedom and peace,” he emphasized.
The text recognized the bravery of the Hondurans and affirmed that the people in resistance with their strength, courage and honesty to all tests, never gave up on their ideals of defending their dignity and that of their homeland “against the usurpers who hold economic power.” and colonialist and destroyed national unity with their crimes.”
“Democratic socialism is the political, economic and social model necessary to preserve the human species and the planet in the process of destruction by neoliberal imposition and the terrible effects of global capitalism, which we will continue to combat by reaffirming our independence and sovereignty,” he stressed.
The declaration added that Latin America and the Caribbean suffers the destructive effects of colonialism and imperialism in its cruelest forms of violence, unjust blockades and sanctions, coups d’état, lawfare (legal war) and the abuse of monopolistic trade practices and financial framework.
From this Thursday until the 29th, Honduras will celebrate the second Celac-Social with the attendance of more than 300 international delegates.
The event is taking place within the framework of the commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the coup d’état against President Manuel Zelaya and the fifteenth anniversary of the Honduran popular resistance.
As part of the agenda, the holding of seminars on women and youth, thematic tables on education, defense of the land, labor dignity and judicialization of politics, among other topics, stand out.
