The 8th CELAC summit is presently underway in St Vincent, with leaders from member countries participating.
Honduras becomes CELAC pro tempore president. President of the Central American Integration System Xiomara Castro of Honduras said she was honoured to lead CELAC until 2025.
“As a proud representative of the Honduran resistance, I send a strong, giant, and brave embrace to the noble people of the Latin American and Caribbean Great Homeland,” she added, reiterating “unwavering commitment” to calm.
Castro noted that the 10th anniversary of the designation of LATAM as a “peace zone,” ratified during the second CELAC summit in Havana, is in 2024.
“Despite challenges, we have maintained our war-free zone tradition. Today, we must reiterate that Latin America and Caribbean will never attack a fraternal nation.”
“The problems and differences among this bloc’s countries must be resolved among ourselves without external interference or pressure, using dialogue as a tool, and always thinking about regional well-being and the self-determination of peoples,” Castro said.
I defend peace. She concluded that Latin America must speak up, quoting Honduran environmentalist Berta Caceres, who advised us to “exercise humanity because there is no time left.”
