WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES. –US President Joe Biden is ready to cooperate with his Honduran counterpart Juan Orlando Hernandez, as stated by the presidential adviser Juan González.
“At the moment he is the elected president of Honduras, we are going to work with his government, we are going to look for areas of common interest,” González said in an interview broadcast by the network this Sunday. Cnn in Spanish, when asked whether the head of state is a “valid interlocutor” for Washington.
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“We have to work with the governments, but not just with the governments, of course the Honduran foreign minister. (Lisandro Rosales) will be here this week, Ricardo (Zúñiga, the special envoy of Washington for the Northern Triangle of Central America) and I’m going to meet him, looking for areas for joint work, ”he said.
It is important to remember that Zúñiga toured the Northern Triangle last week, but did not reach Honduras. Foreign Minister Rosales and Interior Minister Carlos Madero claimed that talks had already progressed and that Zúñiga would therefore not reach Honduran territory.
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Contradictions
The State Department spokesman, Ned price, said on March 9 that Washington cannot have close ties with leaders who do not fight corruption, in response to a question about the implications of the charges against Hernández.
“We will not hide when we denounce a leader in particular. We are trying to eradicate corruption wherever it may be, whether in the Western Hemisphere or elsewhere, ”Price added.
The drug traffickers who dot Juan Orlando Hernández with their statements
It should be remembered that during the trial of the Honduran drug trafficker Geovanny Fuentes, President Hernández was repeatedly mentioned and pointed out that he was receiving money from drug trafficking.