Xiomara Castro: “A coup is being plotted against my government”
The president of Honduras denounced this Thursday that a coup d'état is being plotted against her government, in what was her first reaction to the breaking of the extradition treaty with the U.S., after the interventionist declarations of the U.S. ambassador in Tegucigalpa. teleSUR
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00:00Let's go live to Honduras once again to listen to President Xiomara Castro, let's see.
00:08About electricity as well as in other places, we have to recall all the efforts that we are making
00:19a company that wanted to privatize, we are making efforts to stop it as a welfare of the people,
00:34as the communal right of the people, because this means that energy must reach the last area
00:46of all areas of our country and also as there have been two years and seven months in office
01:00and we have made a great effort to be able to lift up this country
01:12and to counteract all the damages of previous governments and one of the
01:26important things is to recover our dignity as people.
01:32So, we have to point out, we have to prioritize our dignity, we not only recovered our dignity,
01:48but also our willingness, our will, the will of the people. I know that these things
01:58are not understandable by those who don't love our homeland. These are not understandable by
02:11those who intend to sell out our resources, those who delivered our forests, our rivers,
02:22our seas, those people that are bending over the external forces and allow them to
02:35arrive here to implement, to pursue mechanisms that are not ours, to come here
02:43to try to impose wills that are not the wills of the people, those who don't love
02:52the homeland, who don't know and don't understand the dignity of our people, that they don't
03:00understand the value of having a homeland. Those who point me out and those who regret
03:12when they call that there is no, that they don't have to fight with friends.
03:21I understand that we have friends and good relations with countries, but those relations
03:33must be under respect, under values of respect, not of interference.
03:41The Honduran people know, are aware of all the
03:49governmental projects. Today, on the sake of the people, we are demonstrating
03:57that the funds, the incomes of the Honduran people, of the taxes are being channeled,
04:08are being allocated on the projects like this one, on highways projects,
04:18on productive roads, on productive projects as hospitals, and newborn facilities, health
04:29facilities, one of the largest that we have in the country. Likewise, the repair of schools.
04:42What we are supporting, we are supporting the education with the scholarships and snacks,
04:54and the endless support to the field with the agricultural bonus, with the cafe bonus,
05:06with several bonuses, and the support that we are providing to the construction of soccer
05:13areas. And we are supporting also the Yes I Can program for those people who don't know,
05:25who are illiterate. And so, we are supporting the projects for poor people, programs that
05:35are direct, that are benefiting the population, the forgotten people, and who has been suffering
05:47for so many years. And I have always said that this is going to be a transition government
05:54from dictatorship to democracy. But we are doing more than we have planned, and we have projected,
06:01because these projects in which we are lifting up not only companies that are so important for
06:12our citizens, men and women, that represent the economic breakthrough for our country.
06:20They are so much important for Honduras, because they represent
06:28the development for our communities. The Honduran people, I want, I would like to say to you
06:41that we are working that well, that there's been a conspiracy against my government,
06:53and that's important for you to know. Yesterday, they attacked
07:01the head of the armed forces and the minister of defense in our country.
07:13Look, this is a very, we have to be on alert on this, because this attack we cannot allow,
07:29because it weakens the institutionality of the armed forces.
07:37Not only that, it jeopardizes the electoral process of our country.
07:53We have been going through, we have experienced a coup d'etat before.
08:01We lived through what it means, violence, persecution, violations of human rights.
08:14I would like to promise you, to promise the Honduran people,
08:19that there won't be any more coup d'etats.
08:30And that I am not going to allow that the instrument, the extradition instrument,
08:43be used to blackmail the Honduran armed forces. We are defending our armed forces.
08:54No to the coup, no to the coup d'etat. We are going to follow building the Honduras
09:02that the people is building alongside my government. We are going to continue building
09:11peace, unity that the people need today. Let's not forget ever our resilience.
09:29We were just listening to the president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, as she was talking
09:35about the situation in the country. The president of Honduras was making reference to the attacks
09:43that happened yesterday. Let's continue to listen to the president.
09:53We're looking at images as she takes part in the
09:57opening of this power plant to which she attended today.
10:05We were listening to the words of the Honduran president, Xiomara Castro, who addressed the
10:31country at the opening of the electric power plant located at the Santa Rosa de Copan,
10:37one of the most important things that she was highlighting, along with the efforts that the
10:42government is making while striving to rebuild the welfare of the country after the dictatorship.
10:49She denounced a conspiracy against her government, as she mentioned yesterday's attack against the
10:56heads of the armed forces in the country, which she described as an attack against institutionality
11:03and also democracy in the nation. She also highlighted in the strongest terms that the
11:13extradition mechanisms would not be used to blackmail the armed forces. She was making
11:21reference to attacks that became known yesterday as a way to target
11:28authorities of the armed forces in the nation.
11:33And Xiomara Castro, in this way, was making reference to the dictatorships that the nation
11:41have already lived through and the way that the country would not allow something like that to
11:50happen again. So those were the statements from the president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro. Again,
12:03let's recall one of the most important things that she was saying was denouncing an attack
12:08against the government. She described this attack as an attack against institutionality in the
12:14country, against democracy in the country, and highlighted that this would not be allowed in
12:19any terms. Now let's take