The President of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, condemned the interference of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in the November 30 election process, stating that the popular will was subjected to blackmail, extortion, and manipulation during the contest.
Buenos Aires, December 10 (NA) — The President of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, condemned the 'interference' of her counterpart from the United States, Donald Trump, in the November 30 electoral process, and denounced that the popular will was 'subjected to blackmail, extortion, and manipulation' during the contest. More than six million Hondurans were called upon on November 30 of last year to elect a new president, 298 mayors, 128 deputies to the National Congress, and 20 representatives to the Central American Parliament, among other positions.
To this, the former president of that country, her husband Manuel Zelaya, agreed, according to data obtained by Agencia Noticias Argentina through Xinhua.
'From here, from this house of justice, I condemn the interference of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, when he threatened the Honduran people that if they gave their vote to a brave and patriotic candidate from the Libre Party, Rixi Moncada, there would be consequences,' Castro stated while inaugurating a modern judicial building in the city of Catacamas, Olancho department, in the east of the country.
Castro emphasized that, as president and as a figure who emerged from the Resistance, she will continue to defend 'the dignity of the Honduran people' and called to strengthen the country's justice institutions to ensure transparent processes and respect for national sovereignty.
Zelaya also protested
The former President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, stated this Wednesday that a series of external interventions, including actions attributed to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, would have 'brutally altered' the voting intention in the Central American country, for which he requested the annulment of the recent elections.
'The pardon from President Donald Trump for the drug convict; his interference in our democratic system, which he carried out during the electoral silence period, in the 72 hours prior to the elections, and the coercion and threats sent in 3.6 million messages to the phones of voters who receive remittances from the United States, added to the proven extortion by the maras (gangs), brutally altered the voting intention that clearly favored the presidential candidate Rixi Moncada,' the former head of state declared on his social networks.
He also considered that 'electoral terrorism' was imposed through a Preliminary Electoral Results Transmission System (TREP), which was manipulated, a fact supported by 26 audios that, in his opinion, evidence an 'electoral coup in progress.'
'We denounce it firmly: we do not accept it and for these dirty maneuvers, we demand that the elections be nullified,' Zelaya highlighted.
Castro also criticized the pardon granted by Trump to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández (2014-2022), who served a 45-year prison sentence in the United States for drug-related crimes.
'They may pardon his sentence, but his crimes and crimes against the people are not forgotten,' she expressed, after pointing out that 'the conservatives from Washington took the decision to ally with drug trafficking, organized crime, and the maras (gangs) that operated with impunity from the State itself for more than a decade.'
The Head of State of Honduras maintained that the problems and failures in the electoral transmission system 'represent a direct attack on the popular will' and emphasized that several recent pieces of evidence 'demonstrate that these elections are vitiated by nullity.'
'Democracy does not exist without justice and the people must not accept processes marked by interference and blackmail,' she added.
She stated that she has consulted with candidate Rixi Moncada to disseminate this information, as according to the national count of presidential ballots carried out by her organization, ballot by ballot, the one who would result as the winner of the presidency is Salvador Alejandro César Nasralla Salum.
In addition, Zelaya expressed that the Liberty and Refoundation Party (Libre), which he founded in 2011, 'will continue to be a guarantee in the defense of the truth and the sovereign will of the Honduran people' and reiterated his rejection of the electoral coup and fraud.
The Head of State indicated that her Government guaranteed a peaceful electoral process, but despite this, the Honduran people faced 'coercion, blackmail, tricks, frauds, and alteration of the TREP (Preliminary Electoral Results Transmission System).'
Electoral Coup
In her opinion, these actions constitute 'an electoral coup in progress' that will be denounced before bodies such as the United Nations (UN), the European Union, and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.