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Tag: CELAC Summit - Honduras

  • Thursday, April 10th 2025 - 09:28 UTC

    Honduras' Castro hands over Celac's rotating presidency to Petro

    Castro trusts Petro (L) “to keep alive the dreams of Bolivar, Marti, Fidel, Allende, Chávez, and Sandino”

    Honduran President Xiomara Castro Wednesday handed over the pro tempore presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) to Colombia's Gustavo Petro at the bloc's 9th Summit in Tegucigalpa.

  • Thursday, April 10th 2025 - 08:59 UTC

    Milei and Peña get together in Asunción instead of going to Honduras

    Milei said he shared with Peña “the love for the ideas of Freedom”

    Presidents Javier Milei of Argentina and Santiago Peña of Paraguay met Wednesday in Asunción to stress their shared commitment to economic freedom and deregulation as a path to prosperity. Their encounter took place at the same time most other heads of State convened in Tegucigalpa (Honduras) for the Celac Summit.

  • Wednesday, April 9th 2025 - 09:50 UTC

    Celac Summit: Lubetkin underscores importance of regional cooperation

    “Let us concentrate on the problems we have to face,” Lubetkin stressed

    Uruguay's Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin underlined in Honduras the importance of regional cooperation and unity during his message at the IX Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), which he deemed the most inclusive forum in Latin America and the Caribbean, bringing together 33 states.

  • Tuesday, April 8th 2025 - 08:27 UTC

    Mulino and Orsi discuss Mercosur and other issues in Panama

    Orsi's trip marked the first visit by a Uruguayan sitting president to Panama in 16 years

    Presidents Yamandú Orsi of Uruguay and José Raúl Mulino of Panama met Monday at the Palacio de las Garzas to discuss the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and other bilateral issues. The newly-inaugurated Broad Front leader's trip reciprocated Mulino’s prior visits to Uruguay, which facilitated Panama’s entry as an Associated State of Mercosur in December 2024. The meeting also took place as part of the celebrations marking 120 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.