The people of Honduras take to the streets today to support the government of Xiomara Castro, in a national mobilization. “No more coups d'état, Xiomara is not alone, are part of the chants echoing in Tegucigalpa”, says Karim Duarte, teleSUR correspondent in the Central American nation. The Honduran president expressed the people's rejection of the coup attempts of the narco-dictatorship.
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00:00We go live to Honduras, we have statements at the rally.
00:07Exile, murder and looting from the drug trafficking dictatorship
00:16and we'll never give up until we conquer.
00:30We won't give up!
00:49We gave everything to the people's cause
00:54and I left the statement that in a heroic act in the poll station
01:08we conquer.
01:10And the drug trafficking dictatorship corrupt and cruel
01:26from the national party and their allies was defeated.
01:31Thank you Mel for your bravery in this fight.
02:02Mel, the builder of the victory in our country.
02:14Thank you to the people, thank you for the freedom.
02:19Neither the oppression or injustice, not even this equality or exclusion
02:36that by centuries the people suffer in Honduras
02:42have managed to bend us, the project of the homeland
02:51because it's still moving forward the project
02:54and we're going to get more victories with a triumph between this 2025.
03:12We will never be defeated!
03:29The people united will never be defeated!
03:41for the 174 comrades that offered.
04:04Thank you very much.
04:22Thank you very much to all the 174 comrades that offered their lives in this fight.
04:35I demand to have an investigation of the murders and to punish to the responsible.
04:49And if Murillo lives, Pedro Magdiel Murillo lives, Roger Vallejo lives, Wendy Avila lives,
05:12Manuel Flores lives, Eric Martinez lives, Walter Troches lives, Claudia Cepeda lives,
05:34Olga Ucles lives, Hector Geronimo lives, the blood of the martyrs,
06:03to the ones who denied to pay the taxes, the ones who loot the state budget, the ones
06:20who destroyed and privatized the public companies with trust funds that were corrupt, public
06:30or private, to the ones that negotiate the sovereignty and sell the territory and spaces,
06:42have to comply.
06:46And I won't allow to organize a new CUBE D'ETAT, a CUBE D'ETAT never more, CUBE D'ETAT
07:13never more.
07:25We have, from our side to the people, and the reason is assisting us, with the blood
07:36of our martyrs will be newly defeated.
07:46And I invite the youth to our working class, to defend the legacy of our hero Francisco
08:00Morazán, to defend our democracy and the social program of our government.
08:12The strength from the ultraconservative in his attempted CUBE, I am dear to lead now.
08:42The rebuilding is working now and we're going for another victory.
09:12I want to inform you that at this time is being defined the power of the nation in 2026-2030.
09:41And this Friday, in the National Electoral Council, the weak two-party system after falsely
09:56accusers ended up defeated and the soldiers were set missing the agreements of the last
10:11March.
10:12Those are the same ones that lose the elections on 2013 and in 2017.
10:21And they assault the power through the fraud.
10:31And likewise, in 2021, we will come back and defeat them.
11:01As a president of Honduras and commander in chief of the armed forces, with the legal
11:22authority that the people place upon us, I've named to the comrade Rixi Moncada as
11:32a defense minister.
11:56And this day, I want to warranty that in 2025, we will have elections that are clean
12:10and transparent.
12:26We will not allow that the two-system party decay made another fraud in the polls.
12:33We are certain and we will come back to the victory again.
12:53The rebuildment is en marche, that 1.2 million of children has free scholarship and receive
13:09daily the school snacks.
13:20We are funding the producers of the field and more than a million receive seed fertilizers.
13:33The technological field, thousands of schools and educational centers are being repaired.
13:48The hospitals of St. Barbara and Potateque Yolancho are already being built.
14:03And five more are counting with the fund and will initially lay constructions this year.
14:16More than 14,000 millions of Lempiras are being invested in highways, the paths we
14:30executed through the major ships.
14:34We are taking back the public companies, the electric energy company.
14:47More than 800,000 families with lack of resources are receiving free energy.
15:08It is being invested more than 15,000 millions of Lempiras.
15:36And with subsidies, the fuel, every consumer is saving 10 Lempiras per fuel gallon.
15:46This year concludes the restoration of the airports of La Ceiba, San Pedro Sula and Robatan.
16:01And by the first time, it's been distributed thousands of scholarships and it's been supported
16:08the youth with the construction of the installations of sports centers.
16:2055,000 of multipurpose areas, stadiums, the Morazan Stadium in San Pedro Sula were being
16:35already remodeled.
16:39The re-foundation is moving forward and no one can stop it.
16:52Xiomara complies with her word.
17:02Xiomara meets your expectations.
17:25This is deputies that are standing still, that didn't sell themselves to the one that
17:44are joining us.
18:08To you deputies, brave deputies, I'm saying that the time has come.
18:19We cannot lose our homeland.
18:23Either the reason of our fight, our adversaries are greedy, they don't have shame, they despise
18:37the poor, that they themselves lured and mocked us, we're not like them.
19:07They set media networks of lies every single day, they need to poison, they don't want
19:25to understand that 203 years ago was putting an end to the colony, to give our land and
19:37to the piracy.
19:40We don't want to be subjects of anyone, we want to be free, we want to be respected.
19:57The fight against this exploitation, neoliberal exploitation model that is getting the richness
20:06and only a few, despite the majority of the people, that is the mother of all of the battles
20:48I want you to carry a clear message to the Andean people, we're going to, we're moving
20:58forward to a new fight, the second victory of the Libertad en Secundación party.
21:14To the two parties, the more we'll conquer, we have to attend the polls.
21:45Comrades of the popular resistance, I thank you, the strong back that you have given me
22:30You can come back to your departments, to your hometowns, to your territories, to your
22:55colonies, to your neighborhoods.
23:02My solidarity for the families of the martyrs and to the comrades that in the journey had
23:18some accident, in the journey to this extraordinary gathering, with the blessing of God and the
23:37certainty that your president, Xiomara, keeps her word.
24:07And as president, multi-president Salvador Allende said, the history is ours and the
24:35people makes him.
24:39The rebuild moves forward and the march of hope for the truthful independency, it can
24:50be stopped until to reach the victory.
24:57We will defeat it on the streets, we'll conquer in the polls and we'll do it again to conquer
25:16in the poll stations.
25:30It's not allowed to forget that we are a resistance.
25:35Thank you very much.
26:05We were listening to the statements of President Xiomara Castro at this massive rally, at this
26:19massive rally being held in Honduras, in the capital, as president addressed all these
26:25people that gathered here to support her government, to support the democratically elected government
26:28and to reject all actions that have been trying to implement that have been denounced by Xiomara
26:33Castro.
26:37During her intervention, the president welcomed President Xiomara Castro, welcomed this large
26:42show of support for her government and for her policies.
26:46She also took to condemn all the interference actions coming from abroad and from within,
26:51from certain sectors of oppositions that, with the help of the same actors, have been
26:56denounced by the president as the states and other international actors have tried to carry
27:01it out and nuke the town in Honduras, an action that the president vowed that she would
27:07not allow this to ever happen again, as it had happened in the past previous elections
27:11in 2013 and 2016, when the people had won in the polls, but through coup actions the
27:18power had been robbed from the people.
27:22And this is a promise that she made that all these groups of people that have been involved
27:26in looting, in stealing from the people from the natural resources of bringing chaos, corruption
27:31and violence in all these areas, she made a promise that all of them were going to be
27:37held accountable and that they would face justice and situations like those would never
27:42happen again, all this in the context of this massive rally that was called by the ruling
27:48party to show their support to the elected government of Honduras.
27:53The people and the reason, she said, is on their side, that's why their victory is assured.
27:58She also called on everyone, on citizens, on Hondurans, to defend democracy and to defend
28:02all the conquests that have been achieved in so little time of her presidency and all
28:06the social problems that have been carried out during Xiomara Castro's presidency.
28:11This is the news that we have from Honduras.