The President of the Republic of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, announced that she would convene a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to seek an urgent and solidarity-based solution to the crisis in Haiti.

"I will convene the CELAC Heads of State so that we can define together a position of absolute and urgent solidarity with Haiti," said President Castro, who has held the pro tempore presidency of the regional organization since March 1, 2024.

Xiomara Castro advocates seeking solutions to regional problems "without interference or external pressure, with dialogue as a tool and always thinking about regional well-being and the self-determination of peoples."

"It is urgent to raise our voices for the Haitian people, who are today plunged into a spiral of violence," she stressed.

No details have been released on the location and date of this summit. As of Saturday morning, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had not yet addressed the subject, nor published a message on its website.

Learn more about CELAC :

CELAC was founded on February 23, 2010, at the Latin American and Caribbean Unity Summit in Mexico, and officially constituted by the Heads of State and Government of its 33 member countries at a meeting in Caracas, Venezuela, on December 3, 2011.

Member countries :

Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, El Salvador, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela.

S/ HaitiLibre