Speech of Scarlet Ivette Romero, Ambassador of Honduras, at the ALBA-TCP Extraordinary Summit. teleSUR
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00:00But before this, I would like to give the floor to Her Excellency, the Ambassador of
00:09our Sister Republic of Honduras, sons and daughters of the great Francisco Morazán,
00:18Scarlett Yvette Romero Tantarero.
00:22She brings greetings from Honduras.
00:24Ambassador, you have the floor.
00:28Thank you very much for attending this meeting.
00:51Buenas tardes y buen provecho.
00:53Good afternoon.
00:57Enjoy your meal, everyone.
01:03Today, in these 12 summits of Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance
01:09for the Peoples of America, People's Trade Treaty, ALBA-TCP, where everyone present here
01:20today and via Zoom, to our comrades of Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, Antigua, Barbuda,
01:29St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, Grenada, St. Lucia, Venezuela,
01:37brothers and sisters, greetings to all of you.
01:44To our dear comrade and brother President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, host
01:50of these summits, Heads of State and Prime Ministers, brothers and sisters.
01:59On behalf of our noble people of Honduras, of the first government of popular resistance,
02:06on behalf of the first woman president in the history of our country, Iris Xiomara Castro Sarmiento.
02:14On behalf of a very dear friend of the peoples of the world, our eternal president, Manuel
02:22Zelaya Rosales, receive a fraternal and revolutionary embrace.
02:29On behalf of our president, her government, of our people, I would like to thank ALBA
02:34for the special invitation today to this summit that gathers us with brothers and sisters
02:40of the greater homeland of Bolivar and Morazán.
02:44Today I have the opportunity to be here as an ambassador and representative of the people
02:49and government of Honduras, but for the people of government of the Bolivarian Republic of
02:54Venezuela, and in this occasion, before this extraordinary summit of Heads of State and
03:01Government of ALBA-TCP, we reaffirm our commitment to strengthen the ties of brotherhood and
03:10friendship and solidarity with the heroic peoples of ALBA, based upon the principles
03:17and practices of international law, promoting human solidarity, respect for the self-determination
03:25of the peoples, non-intervention and strengthening of peace and universal democracy.
03:32We will never tire to repeat, brothers and sisters, and to thank infinitely their support
03:40to the countries of ALBA, which in the darkest times in which imperialist forces were united
03:48to destroy our constitution in Honduras, brave men such as our beloved and always remembered
03:56brother Hugo Chavez Prias, tireless comrades that at the time foreign minister and today
04:04the constitutional president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, among
04:09many others, other men and women, which unbreakable principles, men and women of the greater
04:17homeland, men and women who defended democracy at all costs, and who demanded to stop the
04:25pillage, the murder, and promoted the restoration of the rule of law in our country, Honduras,
04:34and who permanently waged a struggle for the return of President Manuel Zelaya Rosales
04:40at the airport of Tegucigalpa at the border with Nicaragua, which was essential for the
04:48return of President Zelaya in the midst of so much repression at the time, and during
04:54the struggle of popular resistance that emerged after the coup d'etat of 2009.
05:02Now we are here once again as observers and invited by ALBA, an association of countries
05:09that we love, respect, and admire. From our part, we can only make one thing clear, that
05:15from the Republic of Honduras, we will always advocate and tirelessly defend the processes
05:23of each country. The self-determination of the people is necessary to move forward in
05:29the construction of democracies that we aspire to have, real and genuine democracies that
05:35should always be a right for our Latin American countries and all around the world.
05:40Honduras knows and recognizes the democratic processes that the Venezuelan people has carried
05:50out in the past few years, a country that has carried out over 30 elections, if I'm
05:56not mistaken, in less than 25 years, and the electoral process of July 28th is not an exception.
06:04We congratulate once again the Constitutional President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros,
06:11to whom we wish the greatest of successes to continue to build and lead the processes
06:18for change in favor of each and every one of the Venezuelan people.
06:24We are certain from Honduras that Commander Chávez is from eternity happy from the men
06:30and women who continue to build and defend the dream of Bolívar, for which he fought
06:36so much. Alba has been, is, and will continue to be a shield of hope, of unity, of strength,
06:45an alliance of brothers and sisters to whom Honduras will be eternally grateful.
06:51And as our President says, we will never forget comrades that we continue to be a resistance
06:58until victory forever we will prevail.