The followers of the president and the ruling Freedom and Refoundation Party (Libre), traveled from various parts of the country to this capital, to show their support for the refoundation project of Honduras which, according to the authorities, is based on the principle of democratic socialism.
Images from Channel 8 television showed protesters wearing red and black clothing in a large crowd that filled Suyapa Boulevard, where they showed allegorical posters of the commemoration and waved Honduran and Libre party flags.
“We are here with our energy to continue fighting for our rights that were taken away by the narco-dictatorship of Juan Orlando Hernández,” said one of the attendees of the popular mobilization in dialogue with local media.
For his part, Libre congressman Francisco Sandoval stated that every day they advance in the social refoundation in Honduras, both in the productive area and in the infrastructure area.
This week, the Honduran head of state in a speech before deputies of the National Congress, stated that her proposal emerged from the heart of the streets and was elevated to political power through a true and clean democratic process.
“I am the faithful testimony of the determination of a people to overcome their state of backwardness and poverty that bears the weight of the debt but that, by majority, has chosen to overcome and build equality and justice without fear,” she expressed. She recalled that the Honduran people have been hit for years with neoliberal privatizing measures and policies that mercilessly punished them with corruption, violence and poverty.
“Honduras is the poorest and most unequal state in Latin America, the 2009 coup d’état only deepened the system of privileges, the debt increased by 600 percent, it went from three billion dollars in 2009 to 20 billion dollars in in 2021, while poverty grew exponentially,” he stressed.
She added that, without applying new taxes, her administration punctually supports the onerous debt of neoliberal administrations, complying with the commitments of the Republic’s budget.
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