Tegucigalpa.
Honduras has been hit for several years by the corruption, Drug trafficking and, in the last year, the pandemic of the covid-19 and the hurricanes Eta i Iota. Luis Zelaya, liberal precandidate in the Presidency by the Liberal Party, Seeks to end the corruption and the drug trafficking in the country.
As its movement indicates, it aims to “recover Honduras” from the crisis in which it has been immersed in recent years. the pre-candidate, Which is running in the internal elections for the second time, plans to help Hondurans through programs to reduce unemployment, improve infrastructure, education, health and other issues of interest to citizens.
What are your top government priorities?
Employment. We need to rebuild the employment lost by the pandemic and work on the foundations of a stable and decent job structure. the Health. We need a national vaccination plan that will ensure the return to normalcy as soon as possible, but also the improvement of our public health system in terms of hospital admissions and medicines and the creation of regional hospitals.
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YOUR PROPOSALS The “Let’s Recover Honduras” movement has a plan that sets out 70 proposals for governing the country. The strategy called “Honduras a country with a future” highlights the strengthening and emergence of different sectors of the country. Orient the budget of the republic with the aim of caring for Honduran women and thus stop being a victim of gender-based violence and discrimination. Ensure vaccines against covid-19, an education plan focused on giving mobile devices to students so that they can learn through virtual modalities. |
Education. We will undertake a major employment-oriented educational reform. Education is the key to the future, and we need to steer it toward that place. Institutionality. We need there to be respect for the rule of law, the Constitution and the role of Honduras in the region and in the world.
The link of the Government with the drug trafficking makes Honduras’ international reputation low and this affects investment and relations with other countries around us. And the fight against corruption and drug trafficking. Honduras must stop being a narco-state. we will recover the Support Mission Against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (Maccih), we will strengthen the National Anti-Corruption Council and repeal the new Penal Code, which protects criminals more.
Why should the Honduran people vote for you?
Because our movement represents the right side of the Liberal Party, away from the corruption and collusion of the criminals who rule us. Because we will promote a great national alliance from the unity of the honest and because we have a government plan that responds to the needs of the Honduran population.
How do you define these elections?
As the most important in our recent history. Not only are we fighting against a situation of economic crisis due to the pandemic, but also against a regime that seeks to perpetuate itself in power by linking or collaborating with drug trafficking. The future of the country depends on what happens in the March 14 elections.
Do you consider yourself right, left or center? Why?
The Liberal Party is considered the center. And I consider myself central, I agree with the ideas of the party’s social liberalism, that’s why I’m a liberal. We believe in the prominence of the state as a guarantor of public and basic services and we promote private activity as a generator of employment and wealth.
On what criteria was it based in selecting its nominees, candidates for mayor and deputies?
Candidates for mayors and deputies were selected by the departmental coordinators of our movement. The selection on the analysis of their personal and professional actions so that they had no links with corruption. The nominees were selected by me looking for profiles that would meet the needs of the country according to their profiles: an economist, a doctor and a person committed to our ethnicities and culture.
Faced with the distrust and discredit that the population has for the political class, why should people trust you?
Because we are not all the same. I understand the discredit of politics and politicians, but we are not all the same. I only want to work for my country for four years, generate stable employment for the people and end the corruption and drug trafficking that is on the pillars of the state.
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profile Luis Orlando Zelaya
53 years old city Tegucigalpa profession Industrial engineer Load Current Chairman of the Executive Council of the Liberal Party It was born in Tegucigalpa the 24 from October from 1967. Zelaya obtained the title in the race of Industrial Engineering in the Technological Institute of Studies Superiors of Monterrey. In 1997 it obtained his masters in Administration of Companies and went achieve a postgraduate degree in Technology Administration and Technological Innovation. He has a master’s degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance and a postgraduate degree in Technology Administration and Technological Innovation from UNIDO (Germany and Italy), as well as a postgraduate degree in Productivity and Quality from the University of Costa Rica. He worked as a teacher, head of engineering, dean, vice-rector and rector of the Central American Technological University (Unitec) and was part of the team that created the Technological University Center (Ceutec). |
What would you say to the undecided young person or who has no plans to exercise the vote to choose you?
That our government will be the government of employment. With our policies there will be a future for him and we will end caravans. That we will reform education to orient it to employment, we will have dignified health and it will see Honduras again in the international sphere as what it is, a great country, not because of corruption or drug trafficking.
In the face of the crisis, how do you plan to recover the Honduran economy?
Attractive investment. First, with local investors. We want to support entrepreneurs and self-employment, we will lower taxes progressively so that employers can invest more and generate more employment. Second, with a public investment plan aimed at improving infrastructure such as bridges and roads to facilitate the arrival of international investors. And opening Honduras to the world to make our raw material, our talent and land attractive to the world.
Geopolitically, where will your government point?
Honduras must be a country open to the world. Today, globalization allows for no boundaries or frontiers. Our economy, our products and our natural and tourist wealth have no borders; but we cannot turn our backs on the most immediate and near. We need to have fluid relations with the countries in the region and, of course, with our main trading partner, the United States. We cannot afford not to have fluid relations with a country where a million Hondurans live.