Protest in Honduras Intensify Calling for President Juan Orlando Hernandez Resignation

The protest in Tegucigalpa is the latest in a wave of discontent that has swept through Central America, after Guatemalans took to the streets for five consecutive weeks to demand the resignation of President Otto Pérez Molina.

Protesters multiplying throughout the Country of Honduras Calling for President Juan Orlando Hernandez Resignation

Opposition party leaders accused the right-wing National Party (PN) government of having accepted approximately $90 million from IHSS to finance Hernández’s campaign in 2013, a cut of more than $300 million in diverted funds from the IHSS.

Protesters marched down Kennedy Boulevard to the government house and the School Hospital with lit torches, chanting “leave, leave,” and “Who stole our Social Security? The National Party.”

Ousted Honduran Ex-President Mel Zelaya calls for the Resignation of Current President Hernandez

“We are asking that those officials who have stolen from the people resign, and they include the president, the president of Congress, Mauricio Oliva, [and] the chief prosecutor, Óscar Chincilla,” said a legislator of the left-wing Freedom and Reorganization (Libre) party founded by overthrown ex-President Manuel Zelaya.

Salvador Nasralla Shows the famous “Red Card” used in soccer to Call for the “Expulsion” of Current Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez over charges of Corruption involving the IKSS

Hours before the protest, lawyer Jaime Banegas, representing PN officials, filed a lawsuit before the Judicial Branch for libel and slander against Salvador Nasralla, the former candidate of the opposition Anticorruption Party (PAC), for having denounced them to the local media for allegedly accepting funds from the IHSS to finance the campaign.

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What did the people of Honduras stand up for, march for, and risk their lives for in 2009? I don’t know, because under the dead of night, it seems, Juan Orlando Hernández has done exactly what Mel Zelaya could not, even under threat of his promise to “I will return, no matter the cost, including human lives”, change the Constitution! See the whole story at:http://www.honduras.com/political_protests_in_honduras/