Tegucigalpa, September 21 (Prensa Latina) Political scientist Alejandro Bonilla today described Honduran President Xiomara Castro’s intervention at the UN General Assembly as sovereign, internationalist, anti-colonial and anti-imperialist.
“He not only spoke about the difficulties of a country, but also emphasized the great problem that humanity is threatened by transnational capital,” Bonilla commented in an interview with Prensa Latina.
According to the analyst, the head of state’s first speech before the multilateral organization filled the president with great courage and took her to another level in the political and international arena.
“It reminded me of the speeches of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez with an anti-imperialist and socialist sense,” he commented.
The Libertad y Refundación (Libre) party member referred to the country’s problems addressed by Castro, who blamed international capital for maintaining a dictatorship for 13 years.
Bonilla alluded to the president’s electoral victory, believed to be the highest vote in the country’s history, and backed Castro’s words when he said “it’s not enough for the profound changes our peoples are dealing with.”
According to the Central American nation analyst, the dignitary has spoken out in a humane and timely manner against the economic, trade and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba and against the sanctions against Venezuela.
Bonilla highlighted the interventions of Colombian President Gustavo Petro; and Luis Arce from Bolivia, noting that the first day of the high-level segment of the UN General Assembly reflected a united Latin America against hegemonic capital and neoliberalism.
In her speech the day before, Xiomara Castro denounced the policies of the neoliberal governments in Honduras, which have ruined the Central American nation for 13 years.
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