Ms. Velazquez arrived at Tegucigalpa’s Teaching Hospital suffering from several serious injuries, including a blow to the head, doctors said.
Police and some witnesses said Ilse Velazquez fell while fleeing the police and was trampled under the feet of other protesters. According to other accounts, she was struck by a vehicle.
One other teacher and a police officer were injured in the incident, a police spokesperson said.
Soldiers and police used tear gas and a water cannon to disperse protesting teachers gathered outside the offices of Inprema.
The teachers are unhappy about a proposed government takeover of Inprema and over proposals that would place a number of school programs under the control of municipal administrations.
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It is very sad that somebody would be killed while protesting, very sad indeed, but what the protest is about is also very sad.
I wonder how many people have asked themselves if the poor teaching that those teachers provide to the population of Honduras may have something to do with all those killings that go on everyday in the country.
Many people may want to choose to fail to see the connection, but for more than 25 years, continuously, the teachers in Honduras have chosen to side themselves with groups of a ‘Socialist / Leftist’ ideology, and these are groups that knowingly so, have seeked to cause ‘Chaos and Anarchy’ in Honduras, thus creating two conditions that the Left needs to exist, this is so that they can claim that their way is the solution to a problem, one that would not exist if it was not created by those groups themselves.
So, yes, I am sorry that that teacher died, but their hands are not clean of blood either, they have been calling for years now for a separation of classes, one based on hate, the poor hate the rich, instead of trying to be better off themselves all they do is try to destroy the economy, so that hate, it is not based on a real condition, but it is very real, and very harmful to the Honduran population.