Central American Foreign
Ministers Discuss Honduras Situation
Central American foreign ministers are in
this capital Friday to meet with peer
Nicolas Maduro and discuss the region's
future relations owith Honduras, one year
after a coup d'etat violated democracy in
that country.
Ministers from Panama,
Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica,
representing the Central American
Integration System (SICA)have expressed
positions with a tendency to forgetting the
past and starting from scratch with the
current Honduran government led by Porfirio
Lobo.
However, Venezuela sees the coup as a
pending subject in its relations with
Tegucigalpa, and says that Lobo's only
purpose is to clean up the de facto regime's
negative image and maintain basic violations
of constitutional rights.
The other member countries of the Bolivarian
Alliance for the Peoples of Our America
(ALBA), also comprising Cuba, Bolivia,
Nicaragua, Ecuador, Dominica, Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines, and Antigua and Barbuda,
defend more or less similar stances.
Panamanian Foreign Minister Juan Carlos
Varela said he would use the meeting,
convened by Maduro, to ask that the ALBA
nations recognize the Honduran government.
Honduras was expelled from the Organization
of American States, and is officially no
longer part of SICA; to return to the
latter, it needs a joint statement from
member states, including Nicaragua. |
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