Honduran President condemns US “military aggression” and “kidnapping” of Nicolás Maduro

Tegucigalpa.- The President of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, condemned this Saturday what she called a “military aggression” by the United States against Venezuela and the “kidnapping” of the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, considering that these events constitute “an affront to the sovereignty of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean”.

“The military aggression of the United States against the people of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, constitutes an affront to the sovereignty and independence of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean,” Castro underlined on the social network X. The president also stated that the action of the United States represents “an absolute disregard and a moral defeat of the United Nations Charter and international law”.

“We condemn this barbarity and stand in solidarity with the brave people of Venezuela, and with President Nicolás Maduro and his wife”, expressed Castro, who noted that “we cannot allow the return of imperial colonialism“.

The US President, Donald Trump, announced that his country carried out this Saturday “successfully a large-scale attack against Venezuela” and said he had captured Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, who are being taken to New York, where they will be tried in a federal court on four charges, including conspiracy to commit narcoterrorism.

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The president of Honduras also pointed out that her country has been “victim of interference and intervention” by Trump during the general elections of last November 30, in which Nasry ‘Tito’ Asfura, of the conservative National Party, was declared as the new president and whose candidacy had the support of the American president. Castro asserted that Trump “threatened the Honduran people during the electoral process for their intention to vote for Rixi Moncada”, presidential candidate of the ruling Liberty and Refoundation Party (Libre, left), and “accompanied a huge electoral fraud that seriously hurts and puts our already fragile democracy at risk”. During the campaign, Trump openly expressed his support for Asfura, whom he called “the only true friend of freedom” and assured that, if he came to power, both could “combat the narcocommunists”, statements that generated rejection in political and social sectors of Honduras and in other countries of the region, who denounced foreign interference. The Libre Party, whose general coordinator is former President Manuel Zelaya, Castro’s husband and main advisor, does not recognize the results of the elections, which were held in a peaceful environment, and has requested the annulment of the electoral process, in which its candidate came in third place with 19.19% of the votes. Asfura, a former mayor of Tegucigalpa, obtained 40.26% of the votes and narrowly defeated Salvador Nasralla, of the also conservative Liberal Party, who added 39.54%, with 99.93% of the ballots counted, according to the National Electoral Council (CNE).