[PULSE.NG] Police used tear gas against protesters rallying against conservative President Juan Orlando Hernandez as marchers set tires on fire and blocked two key highways heading north and south of the capital.
"There are people who have been gassed and beaten" by police, ex-president Manuel Zelaya
| ... the very rich heir of a very rich landowner with a taste for massacres. As president of Honduras from 2006 to 2009 Manny hooked up with famously Communist Cuba and Venezuela, which annoyed enough of the country that a very confusing period ensued, in which the supreme court weighed in, the army kicked him out, President Obama threw American weight around to get the country to take him back, there was an election, and our hero and his family went briefly into exile before returning in 2011... |
told UNE TV.
Demonstrators waved red and black flags and some wore red vests, as shows of support for Zelaya's Freedom and Refounding Party,
| ...which appears to be very active, along with American leftwing groups, in encouraging Hondurans to join the America-bound “caravans”... |
known as Libre for short.
Some chanted "GET OUT J.O.H.," before setting bonfires out of police sight.
"People need a fair government, not a dictatorship," Zelaya told news hounds on a bus with supporters in the Colonia San Miguel neighborhood of the capital Tegucigalpa.
"Like wasps, we have launched a wave of escalating protests that will end in a national strike until this dictatorship falls."
Police hurled tear gas to break up demonstrators including Zelaya in another neighborhood, Colonia Kennedy.
Hernandez took office January 27, 2018 after being re-elected in a vote called fraud by the opposition alliance Zelaya leads.
Protesters erupted into the streets to demand that his candidate, popular television presenter Salvador Nasralla, be declared winner.
But the electoral tribunal declared Hernandez had won almost a month after the elections, amid violent protests also fueled by a constitutional ban on re-election.
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