After thirteen years of dictatorship protected by the international community that led the country to multiply its public debt by six, reach a poverty rate of 74% and with four out of ten Hondurans living in extreme poverty, the president of that Central American nation denounced on Tuesday the “draconian” fiscal discipline measures imposed on the poorest states.
“It is evident that today, for our country to survive, we must reject this presumed austerity that rewards those who concentrate the wealth in few hands, and they increase inequality exponentially”, affirmed the first Honduran president in history in the high-level debate of the General Assembly.
Xiomara Castro pointed out that public policies endorsed by “the rentier model” by the international financial community dragged the country “into a world full of violence and poverty with failed, abandoned projects, corruption, looting and drug trafficking.”
“The poor nations of the world no longer support coups, the use of lawfare (persecution or judicial instrumentalization), nor Color Revolutions, usually organized to plunder our vast natural resources”, he stressed.
Migrant caravans cause more unemployment
Castro explained that his project at the head of the country “is being built under a vision of humanistic refoundation, imbued with dignity and sovereignty,” and that he will undertake “whatever is legally important” to recover the environment, and achieve the common good for all the population.
“For this reason, this arbitrary world order is unacceptable to us, in which there are third and fourth category countries, while those who think they are civilized do not tire of making invasions, wars, financial speculations and crucifying us with their inflation over and over again. “, specific.
From the podium of the Assembly, Castro demanded respect for his country, a nation that wants to live in peace, and also asked that nobody keeps trying to destabilize them, dictate their measures or choose who to relate to.
“Never again, we will carry the stereotype of the Banana Republic, we will end the monopolies and oligopolies that only impoverish our economy,” he said.
He stressed that his executive will return to a “state of justice and law” and that the Honduran people will not forget that during the dictatorship hundreds of murders of young people were committed, that of comrade Berta Cáceres, nor will it omit the forced disappearance of Honduran men and women for your way of thinking.
In an economic key, he affirmed that he had proposed the renegotiation of free trade agreements and made the “sovereign decision” to invest in the country’s development by substituting imports, “but competing in international markets without subsidizing the excesses of developed nations.”
He described the caravans of migrants who fled Honduras for more than ten years as a “hard loss for our country and their families” and that the numbers of this exodus “provoked by neoliberal injustice” create more unemployment and link it to a ” undesirable dependency.
“In our country, paradoxically, emigrants generate more foreign currency income than many of the traditional exports.our solidarity and accompaniment with the Tepesians (immigration benefit granted by the United States government for those immigrants who cannot return to their countries safely), “he said.
Lastly, confirmed the establishment of an international commission to combat corruption and impunity with the support of the Secretary of the United Nations.
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