CUBA has described the Honduras presidential elections as an initiation of a dictatorship instigated by the United States.

Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez called on the Ibero-America to reject Sunday's Honduran elections won by Porfirio Lobo.

Lobo, who received some 56 per cent votes in an election held five months after the ousting by military coup of President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, called for reconciliation and a government of national unity.

Zelaya remains holed in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Rodriguez said the Honduran people would have the last word.

He warned of the return of the US military doctrine in Latin America.
“A dictatorship has been started in Honduras through a military coup with the US instigation and support," Rodriguez told the 19th Ibero America summit in Estoril, Portugal. "To recognise the spurious government that these illegitimate elections emerge will betray principles of peace, democracy and justice. We have a deep conviction that the Honduran people with their struggle will have the last word.”

He said the US government threatened Latin American peoples with the development of an aggressive military doctrine, the reactivation of the Fourth Fleet, and the establishment of military bases.
"The aim is domination and interference,” Rodriguez said, according to Prensa Latina.

He said the US policy shift for Latin America was to get the US military power closer to the rich sources of raw materials such as energy.
"This is an offense to our America’s dignity and a threat to peace, stability and sovereignty," he said.

Rodriguez said Cuba, a country that had suffered persistent US hostility, demanded the closure of the infamous prison located in the illegal naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba.

He said the US must close field of torture created at Guantanamo naval base and the return of the territory to Cuba.

"Latin America and the Caribbean also calls for peoples’ right to live in peace and build a future of justice, innovation and knowledge all of which are a source of virtue and not an instrument of war,” said Rodriguez.