Pedro Sánchez has been received today with full honors by the president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, who came to power last January. With a progressive tendency, Castro is the wife of former President Manuel Zelaya, who was also present at the event and at the interview with Sánchez, along with the couple’s son, who acts as the president’s private secretary. Sánchez’s visit has aroused much media expectation in the Central American country. It has been 23 years since a Spanish president has visited Honduras and in what has been in office Castro has only received the Mexican leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Migration and Spanish cooperation in Honduras are the main issues discussed by Castro and Sánchez, who ends here the tour that has taken him to Colombia and Ecuador. Spain proposes expanding the current circular migration system, by which 250 workers are allowed to enter Spain for agricultural campaigns and then return to their country. A system that the United States was interested in when it learned about it at the last Summit of the Americas.
Sánchez’s tour had as its political strong point the interview with the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, whose left-wing government represents the strength of that ideological sector in the region and who has raised great expectations about his chances of culminating peace and favoring the foreign investment, along with greater social justice. The interview with the Ecuadorian president, the conservative Guillermo Lasso, who encouraged Spanish companies to invest more in his country, also had economic content. And the most social and cooperative aspect has come with the visit to Honduras.
Throughout the tour, Sánchez has insisted that ties between Europe and Latin America must be strengthened, especially when the war in Ukraine is causing inflation that affects beyond Europe, along with a food crisis that also affects the countries of Latin America. America for the rise in the price of fertilizers. Sánchez has assured that he will work hard in this task.
In the last of his speeches, together with the Honduran president, Sánchez made a point to claim the approval, in Congress, of the sexual freedom law, known as the “yes is yes law.” He assured that Spain is a pioneering country in the protection of equality and recalled Zapatero’s homosexual marriage law. Castro also made reference to the former socialist president, but to remember that she condemned the coup against her husband.
