The meeting was urgently convened by former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya (2006-2009) to “discuss and deliberate” on what he described as Trump’s interventionist, deliberate, and openly hostile acts.
In a text published on his X account on December 3, Zelaya, who is also the leader of LIBRE, called on the party’s National Coordinating Committee to meet in Tegucigalpa to address the unprecedented intrusion of the US magnate into the elections held a week ago.
He alluded to the three messages posted by the US president 72 hours before the election, in which he openly endorsed the presidential candidate of the right-wing National Party (PN), Nasry Asfura.
Additionally, the US president urged Honduran voters not to vote for LIBRE’s presidential candidate, Rixi Moncada, and even threatened to cut economic aid to Honduras if that happened.
To cap it all, Trump announced the pardon (granted on December 1) of former Honduran president and drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernandez (2014-2022), who had been sentenced by a New York court to 45 years in prison for smuggling more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.
This interference caused serious harm to the Honduran people, who demand a firm, decisive, and deeply patriotic response to define the political, legal, and diplomatic actions that LIBRE will adopt to defend national dignity, democracy, the popular vote, and the peace of the Republic, he asserted.
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