Honduras News – Daily News about Honduras

The National Congress of Honduras ratified departure from the Bolivian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA).

The executive decree sent by President Roberto Micheletti was ratified by the majority of Congress with 128 votes in favor, and five not in favor, those being members of the Democratic Unification Party (UD) and the Innovation and Unity Party. Micheletti spoke of leaving ALBA in a Cabinet meeting held on December 15th, and the next day sent a decree to Congress for ratification.

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Castro saluted the victory of the Bolivian people for reelecting Bolivian President Evo Morales for another presidential term.

During his speech at the summit, Raul Castro extended regrets of the absence of Honduran ousted president Manuel Zelaya, stressing that “the people of that nation (Honduras) were deprived of their Constitutional rights being imposed.”

He strongly condemned the coup staged in Honduras, saying that “with aid of the U.S. administration, an usurper and coup-maker government attempted to be legitimate with an electoral farce.”

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A planned meeting between the ousted and incoming leaders of Honduras to solve that nation’s political crisis has been delayed, Dominican President Leonel Fernandez said Sunday.

Fernandez had announced Friday that he expected the ousted Manuel Zelaya and President-elect Porfirio Lobo to meet in the Caribbean nation’s capital on Monday — implying that Zelaya would be able to leave the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras where he has taken refuge for nearly three months.Read AP Article Here.

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Foreign Ministers of nine Latin American countries on Saturday met in Cuba to sign agreements to support the strengthening of ALBA.

A summit on Sunday and Monday will celebrate the fifth anniversary of the creation of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro was invited to attend, but has not appeared in public since becoming ill in 2006, after which he ceded power to his brother, Raul.

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