The Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Honduras to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Scarleth Ivette Romero, presented her credentials to the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, in a ceremony that took place at the Miraflores Palace. This day strengthens diplomatic, commercial and complementary relations between both nations.
In October of this year, Romero, by designation of the Honduran president, Xiomara Castro, and Foreign Minister Enrique Reina, took the oath of office before the South American nation.
During the coup d’etat in Honduras, in June 2009, against Manuel Zelaya, Romero was elected as the first national coordinator of the National Front of Youth in Resistance (FNJR), and became a founding member of the Partido Libertad y Refundación (LIBRE).
Scarleth Ivette Romero has stood out for her participation in international conferences and forums on behalf of progressive and left-wing women and young people from the Central American nation.
In her professional experience, her performance as a volunteer in the management of international cooperation projects for development stands out, she has been a teacher in the area of Exact Sciences.
She was coordinator of management and execution of community development projects, organization of women in defense of their human rights and organization of young people in the exercise of their political rights.
The diplomat also served as presidential adviser in the National Loss Reduction Program of the state-owned National Electric Energy Company (ENEE) and has worked “ad honorem” in several municipalities and institutions in the west of the country in the management of cooperation projects. international for development.
Venezuela and Honduras have shared their adherence to unionist blocs such as Petrocaribe and the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, however, in 2009, when the coup against President Manuel Zelaya took place, the sister nation left the integrating mechanism, because the Central American nation passed into the hands of the extreme right.
In May of this year, the possible return of Honduras to Petrocaribe became known, a decision that gained strength with the declarations of presidential adviser José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, who said that the government is targeting the Venezuelan program.
This ceremony for the delivery of credential letters to the head of the Venezuelan State is attended by the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Carlos Farias; the first combatant of the Republic, Cilia Flores; the Minister of the Office of the Presidency, Jorge Márquez, among other officials of the Bolivarian Government.
