Xiomara Castro: We deplore any action and any negotiation to attack our nation

President Xiomara Castro rejects coup attempt in Honduras. teleSUR

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00:00We go live to Honduras, where Xiomara Castro, president of the country, is speaking.

00:08Let's listen.

00:09They can sell the land and we can have food security for the Honduran family.

00:19We are supporting with credits in the banks for producers to get a credit with 100% of

00:34interest annually.

00:36So we are boosting the field, the countryside.

00:43And every person who goes to a gas station saves money with the price of fuels.

00:58For the people who consume less than 150 kilowatts are supported, they are electrified, are helped

01:11with electricity.

01:13But the investment that we are making with doing with the electricity, well, today in

01:19the afternoon I'll be in the Miraflores, in La Miraflores, opening the broadening of the

01:27substation of energy.

01:35We are doing it in several places.

01:39We are recovering the national electricity company, which was divided and privatized

01:49in the last 12 years and seven months of the previous governments.

01:53That's the difference.

01:59Meanwhile, those who ruled before privatized, we are recovering the assets of the state

02:09which are from the people, which are yours.

02:18My government is the government of the people.

02:37Go ahead, go ahead.

02:45We have been proven, I am proved, well, I am fighting for you.

03:00And in just two years and seven months in office, I have been proven to rule and to

03:15comply my word, to fulfill the word that I said on my campaign.

03:24I haven't failed you.

03:26And today that we are facing a crisis, have the full certainty that I am willing to continue

03:42defending the will of the people.

03:54And with your strength, with the unity of our party, and with the organization of the

04:03people, which is a witness of those works that we are heading to the most remote area

04:15of the country, in the most remote mountain of our country.

04:23I know that we are going to defend democracy, that we are going to defend our independence,

04:32that we are going to defend our sovereignty, and that we are going to defend our dignity.

04:47We are banned, we are forbidden to forget that we are resilient.

04:53Thank you very much.

04:54We are just listening to the president of Honduras, that was Xiomara Castro.

05:10She was addressing the situation that is overcoming the country, as in the past days she denounced

05:17along with other authorities and intended coup d'etat, cooperation before other countries.

05:26So that was what we were looking at in Honduras.

05:29We will be back with upcoming news briefs.

05:32Stay tuned with Telus for English.