Honduras reaches an agreement on the expansion of the extradition contract with the US | News Donald Trump
Honduras reverses the previous position so that it does not expand the contract, seen as a symbol of the presence in the US.
Honduran president Xiomara Castro She announced that her government reached an agreement with the United States to expand the extradition agreement that had previously promised to abolish.
Castro said on Tuesday that the agreement would include “protective measures” for the sovereignty of Honduras, after being attacked by the contract as an example previously heavy hands Us influence in Latin America.
“I have reached an agreement with the new administration of the United States, so that the extradition agreement will continue with the necessary protective measures for Honduras State, guaranteed its objective application,” Castro said on social networks on social networks on social networks publish.
Otherwise, the contract was supposed to expire in 10 days. But Castro’s decision comes in the midst of US calls to continue the agreement, used to facilitate the extradition of numbers like the former president Juan Orlando Hernandez and former police chief Juan Carlos Bonill.
Hernandez, for example, was a determined American ally who came to power as a figure of “law and order.” But in April 2022. He was extradited to now -in, where he was convicted Last year of using his influence to protect powerful drug traders. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
The Castro government said in August that it would allow the extradition agreement to emphasize the US, accusing of intervention in Honduran politics and planning a national blow against its government and the armed forces.
The Honduran President’s husband, Manuel Zelaya, was expelled in 2009 with power in the right -wing military coup conducted with the support of the business community.
Although the US president at the time, Barack Obama eventually denied a coup as “not legal,” critics say his administration did little to prevent it from taking place.
A period of sharp repression followed, but Castro, Zelay’s wife, organized Optional return and became president in January 2022.
Castro said on Tuesday that the new agreement included guarantees for the “integrity of the armed forces” in Honduras.
As she positioned herself as a leftist and a critic of American mixing in the region, her government had a collaborative relationship with the USA about issues like police and immigration.
US Ambassador Laura Dog recently criticized the meeting of Honduran and Venecuela’s Defense Minister Vladimir Padrin Lopez, who was now accused of supporting drug trade.
