Answering questions from Prensa Latina during a meeting this Friday in Madrid, the MP stressed that Honduran President Xiomara Castro, who is visiting Spain this week, has a very clear agenda to finalize the European Union (EU) agreement with Central America to promote.
“The summit with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac, next July in Brussels) with Spain as the current EU President opens up more opportunities to reach agreements and achieve a closer relationship between the two regions,” Redondo replied.
During the EFE tribune at the Casa de América, chaired by that news agency’s international director, Charo Gasca, the Catracha nation’s lawmakers defended the legitimacy of the election of 15 judges for the Supreme Court “with total transparency and as a crucial tool in the Fight against corruption and violence”.
In this spirit, he considered the election of eight women to the court, stressing that the step and others being taken in the legal field in Honduras seek to restore the value of the constitution, as demanded by the people.
He also pointed to the prosecution in the United States of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández and his brother Tony, who were steeped in drug trafficking and used the institutions to facilitate the cocaine trade, “something of great concern.”
Such a thing, he continued, compels us to press ahead with reforms and represents a huge challenge for Honduras to regain its international credibility.
Regarding Nicaragua and the recent government decision to strip opponents of citizenship, Redondo indicated that relations with the neighboring country are excellent, she respects his opinion and Honduras will eventually analyze the cases, in line with its immigration policy.
He announced that he might visit Cuba this year, which could also happen to President Xiomara Castro depending on forecasts for 2023.
Yesterday Castro secured his presence at the XXVIII. Top event on March 24th and 25th during a meeting with the head of the Iberoamerican General Secretariat, Andrés Allamand.
At the Entity’s headquarters in Madrid, the Honduran President expressed the Central American country’s willingness to start the procedures for accession to the “Framework Agreement for the Promotion of the Circulation of Talents in the Iberoamerican Area”.
It is a mechanism that already includes 10 Iberoamerican countries. It also advocated the consultation process to join the “Ibero-American Initiative to Prevent and Eliminate Violence Against Women” adopted in Andorra in 2021.
The President spoke this week with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and with King Felipe VI, meetings during which she reflected on expectations for the Spanish Presidency of the EU in the second half of this year.
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