Western Hemisphere
The public powers of Venezuela issued a joint statement on Friday to reject and condemn the disruption of Constitution and democracy in Honduras, following the coup d`état that has unleashed a political crisis in the Central American country.

The highest representatives of the National Assembly, Speaker Cilia Flores; the Judiciary Power, Justice Luisa Estela Morales; Citizen Power, Gabriela Ramírez; Electoral Power, Tibisay Lucena and Attorney General Office, Luisa Ortega Díaz, rejected the "flagrant violation of human rights" in Honduras and the "coup d'état and the establishment of a de facto government," which represents the "end of the rule of law."

Venezuela's public powers reported that the new Honduran government "has resorted to the unlawful use of force to ignore popular will and to impose their anti-democratic views on the people."