A Spanish socialist, the Galician David Balsa, now special envoy of the Presidency of the Central American Court of Justice for the United Nations, is part of a triple candidacy for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize proposed by three parliamentarians from Guatemala and Honduras, in which he also includes the vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris. The candidacy was formalized on October 31 and is completed by the Honduran activist Laura Zúñiga, daughter of human rights defender and environmental activist Berta Cáceres, murdered in Honduras in 2016 when she was fighting to stop the creation of a hydroelectric dam.
The proposal of the three Central American parliamentarians for Kamala Harris’s candidacy comes a few days before the mid-term legislative elections scheduled in the United States on November 8. The deputies, two from the formation of the Partido Libertad y Refundación (Libre) that governs in Honduras, and another from National Unity of Hope (UNE), who is in the opposition in Guatemala, Harris stands out for his first-hand knowledge of the situation in Central America and, especially, his drive for the so-called Kamala Plan, an ambitious investment and infrastructure project to combat corruption and support civil society in that area and thus avoid uncontrolled migration. Harris even attended the inauguration almost a year ago of Xiomara Castro as president of Honduras.
The deputies proposing this triple candidacy for the Nobel Peace Prize, Dairi Javier Ávila and Rafael Leonardo Sarmiento, from the Libre party in Honduras, and Marleni Lineth Matias, from the Une in Guatemala, highlight the professional profile of the Spaniard David Balsa Guldris his “ I work in favor of a peaceful solution of the differences between nations in the region and its firm protection of human rights”. Born in the Swiss city of Lausanne in 1969, David Balsa, who comes from the PSOE in Galicia since his time in the socialist youth, has been involved with international organizations and especially in Central America for more than 20 years and with mediation projects that defend multidimensional solutions from the field of health, ecology, economy, migration and security. On October 17, he was appointed by the presiding magistrate of the Central American Court of Justice, César Ernesto Salazar Grande, as special envoy of the Presidency in that body. In Salazar’s letter to the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, to formalize his appointment, Balsa highlights his two decades of diplomatic experience in the international arena in regions such as Central America, but also the Caribbean, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Africa East and the Middle and Far East.
The candidacy is completed with the nomination for this award also of Laura Zúñiga Cáceres, daughter of the Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, assassinated in 2016. Laura Zúñiga is a member of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras and a member of the Youth Front Let’s Make the Impossible . From her career, her activism in defense of indigenous populations, particularly women, the environment and human rights in her country is highlighted. Nominations for the Nobel Prizes are sent by people with a certain qualification to the respective Committee of the Swedish Academy between September and December and they are decided at the beginning of the following year.
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