Zelaya: Putschists Plan to Leave Honduras
out of ALBA
TEGUCIGALPA - Leaving Honduras out of the
Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our
Americas (ALBA) is part of the putschists''
agenda, constitutional President Manuel
Zalaya denounced on Friday.
Putschists had the task of reversing all the
social processes and halt the changes that
had been proposed for the country. This is
part of the coup government goal, Zelaya
told Radio Globo station.
Honduras joined ALBA on August 25, 2008,
being benefited in sectors as education,
health and energy, and food production.
Regarding energy, joining the ALBA and
Petrocaribe guaranteed a daily supply of
20.000 barrels at preferential prices and
low interest rates.
The Central American country received from
ALBA 100 modern tractors, plows, seeders,
and other agricultural equipment to develop
the production.
Honduras was also benefited by Operation
Miracle, a Cuban-Venezuelan project that
benefited about 40.000 citizens with eye
surgeries.
The ALBA also supported a literacy campaign
that taught more than 250.000 people to read
and write.
All these projects will be suspended if the
National Congress approves Roberto
Micheletti's request for withdrawing
Honduras from the Bolivarian Alliance.
President Porfirio Lobo, elected illegally
on November 29, announced that the National
Party was in favor of leaving the
integration mechanism.
During the recent Summit in Havana, the ALBA
ratified its condemnation of the coup and
the process to legitimize the coup regime
with elections.
The final statement acknowledged Zalayas'
brave attitude, expressed solidarity with
the Honduran people and denounced the coup
regime's purposes of stopping social
projects in Honduras and Latin America.
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