More than a thousand people gathered with torches on Friday to demand the president’s resignation Honduras, Xiomara Castrofollowing the revelation of a video related to drug trafficking involving his government and the reinstatement of an extradition treaty with the United States.

During a peaceful march led by opposition politicians and the Civil Peace Army that took place along a boulevard east of the Honduran capital, protesters They demanded the “immediate resignation” of Castro and his family.

Dressed in white, blue and national team shirts, participants chanted slogans such as “Family Out,” “Venezuela Is Not Here,” “Never Free Again” and “Yes to Extradition.” They carried a large banner with Castro’s image. and the message “Resign now.”

Fernando Anduray, the leader of the National Party, the leading opposition force, told reporters that nine out of 10 Hondurans “They are ready to remove the Free Party from power”.

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“If Xiomara (Castro) resigns, The Council of Commanders of the Armed Forces will also have to resignAnd if she resigns, it will be because she admits that she is involved in drug trafficking,” Andurai emphasized.

On Tuesday, the American organization InSight Crime posted a video of Honduran drug traffickers negotiating bribes with Carlos Zelaya, Castro’s son-in-law and brother of former President Manuel Zelaya, who was overthrown in June 2009.

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In this video Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, former leader of the Los Cachiros carteloffers a bribe to the Libertad and Regeneration Party (Libre), to which Carlos Zelaya replies that “half is for the commander,” referring to former President Zelaya.

Carlos Zelaya confessed on August 31. meeting with drug dealers who offered him money for the Libre Party campaign, and on the same day he announced his resignation as a deputy and secretary of the Honduran Parliament.

President of Honduras This Friday he condemned the “regrettable mistake” of his son-in-law Carlos Zelaya. for meeting with drug dealers in 2013 to negotiate bribes for the Libre party campaign and confirmed that a coup was brewing against him.

“We understand that a member our party made an unfortunate mistake“Without informing the coordinator, the candidate and the party, he did it behind our backs, we condemn any action or any negotiations between politicians and drug traffickers, we do not accept it and will not allow it,” Castro emphasized at a press conference at a public event.

Reinstate extradition to the US

Among the demonstrators was the retired general who led the coup against Manuel Zelaya, Romeo Vazquez, who He called on Hondurans to unite to prevent the country from “continuing to sink into the mud.”

He stressed that the torch he carried symbolizes “light against the darkness in which this government finds us, truth against lies, the path to freedom and justice and fight against drug trafficking because this government is a drug government“.

Protesters They also demanded that the extradition treaty with the United States be restored.agreement that allowed Honduras to extradite about 50 Hondurans, mostly for drug trafficking.

“The Zelaya Family did worse than what they had previously criticized“Because they cancelled extradition and gave freedom to drug traffickers,” said Rachid Mejia, president of One Voice for Honduras.

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The Honduran government notified the US Embassy on August 28. decision to “terminate” the extradition treaty The two countries are on the verge of a standoff after U.S. Ambassador Laura Dogue expressed her country’s concerns over a meeting between Honduran Defense Ministry officials and sanctioned Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez.

The mobilization ended near the Presidential House, which was guarded by units of the National Police.EFE)