Central America
Honduran President inaugurates Museum of Memory
June 29 |
Honduran President Xiomara Castro inaugurated on Wednesday the Museum of Memory and Reconciliation in what used to be the Presidential House, located in downtown Tegucigalpa, 14 years after the coup d’état perpetrated against former President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales in 2009.
Castro stressed that the first act of his government was to approve the Law for the Reconstruction of the Constitutional Rule of Law and for the Events Not to Be Repeated, to condemn the coup d’état, compensate its victims and move towards reflection and historical memory.
“Today, with the opening of this Museum of Memory and Reconciliation, we create a space for reflection, a space for learning, a place to meet, to listen to the silenced voices and reconstruct the fundamental values of the creation of our Homeland. Building memory and reconciliation is a complex task,” he stressed.
The Head of State informed that the Secretariat of Human Rights formulated the project to establish the National Day of Truth, Memory and Justice, in addition to the approval of an Executive Decree through which the State assumes the responsibility to support the victims of the unconstitutional coup and their families.
“To those who with their sacrifice taught us that the liberation of our Homeland is not a gift, but a right that we must defend with all our strength, we are here to tell you that your names will remain engraved in the collective memory as a symbol of courage and resistance,” he recalled.
According to the Government Press Secretariat, the president joined the audience attending the evening to chant the names of the heroic men and women who gave their lives to oppose the breaking of the constitutional order, such as Isy Obed Murillo, Roger Vallejo, Wendy Ávila and others.
“Compatriots: together we can build the great Homeland, the dream of Morazán, of Bolívar, of Martí. Honduras today opens its fraternal arms to the solid altar of justice and democratic socialism that only on the basis of a fair and inclusive system can we build”, concluded the head of state.
The event was attended by former President Manuel Zelaya, the President of the Supreme Court of Justice, Rebeca Raquel Obando; the former President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, members of the National Congress and international guests who accompanied the people of Honduras during the 2009 coup.
Central America
Mexico and Guatemala launch joint security operation after Agua Zarca border attack
The Government of Mexico announced on Tuesday that it has strengthened coordination with Guatemala following an armed confrontation in the community of Agua Zarca, in Guatemala’s Huehuetenango department, where a soldier was wounded in an attack attributed to organized-crime groups operating on both sides of the border.
The Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch, confirmed that Mexico is exchanging information with Guatemalan authorities and that Mexican Army units have been deployed along the border to reinforce surveillance and assist in reconnaissance operations.
The attack, Guatemala’s Defense Ministry stated, reflects the “criminal dynamics” dominating that border region, where different groups compete for drug and arms trafficking routes.
According to Guatemala’s Defense Ministry, the clash left a soldier wounded in the leg after suspected criminals crossed from Mexico and opened fire. The wounded soldier is reportedly in stable condition. Authorities also seized high-caliber weapons, explosives, tactical gear and drones, which were handed over for forensic analysis.
Mexican Defense Secretary General Ricardo Trevilla Trejo announced that a coordinated plan of operations will be launched involving both Mexican and Guatemalan forces along the border to counter these criminal networks.
Harfuch emphasized that the violence is not isolated but symptomatic of the ongoing struggle between criminal organizations for territorial control, and reiterated Mexico’s commitment to bilateral security cooperation and its intention to strengthen institutional presence in vulnerable border zones.
Central America
Honduran University: Nullifying elections without proof of fraud undermines popular sovereignty
The National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) stated that the ruling party Libre’s request to annul the general elections is not supported by law in the absence of evidence of fraud, and that such a move puts democracy at risk. The country has yet to learn who its next president will be, following the elections held on November 30.
In a press release, the university said that “a general annulment, lacking structural proof of fraud, constitutes a direct violation of the principle of preserving electoral acts and of the legal certainty of the democratic system.”
It further noted that electoral annulment “is a legal institution of strictly exceptional and restrictive nature, and a last resort, whose application is constitutionally legitimate only when there is full, objective, direct, and decisive proof of the structural legal destruction of the popular will.”
“Annulment is not an ordinary mechanism for political challenges, nor an instrument to correct electoral defeats, but an institutional safeguard intended exclusively to protect the sovereign people when their will has been replaced through proven structural fraud,” the statement continued.
UNAH emphasized that annulling the elections without verified evidence of fraud “would amount, in constitutional terms, to an indirect disregard of popular sovereignty, altering the very essence of the democratic rule of law.”
Liberal Party candidate Salvador Nasralla said on X that he is prepared to compare his tally sheets with those of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Honduras. Since Friday, Nasralla has fallen behind his opponent Nasry Asfura of the National Party.
Central America
CNA director says Libre’s defeat stems from “lack of substance,” not messaging
The director of the National Anticorruption Council (CNA), Gabriela Castellanos, stated on social media that the Liberty and Refoundation Party (Libre) did not fail due to a lack of messaging but because of a “lack of substance.”
“It wasn’t socialism; it was a populist caricature without theory, coherence, or the ability to translate into solutions for the everyday lives of the Honduran people,” Castellanos said.
“The defeat of Libre cannot be explained solely in electoral terms. It reflects a deeper rupture: the gap between a narrative that tried to call itself ‘socialist’ and a citizenry that does not live off ideological abstractions but off concrete urgencies,” she added.
“In Honduras, a discourse grounded in abstract concepts can never replace the urgent conversation about prices, jobs, security, and access to basic needs. That inability to turn theory into solutions widened the gap that ultimately fractured its candidacy,” she noted.
While the right continues to gain votes following the elections, Libre’s presidential candidate, Rixi Moncada, has secured only 19.11% of public support, placing her in third position. “Socialism, in its rigorous sense, is not about activist shouting or improvised directives. It is critical thinking, structural analysis, and a deep understanding of how society works. Libre did not offer that. It offered an impoverished version — an ‘occasional socialism,’ reduced to recycled slogans, without method, without bread, and without the people,” Castellanos said in response to the party’s reaction over the weekend.
“The Honduran people rejected an empty discourse,” she concluded.
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