Honduras police tear gas anti re-election protesters
Source: Reuters
Honduras police tear gas anti re-election protesters
Mon Oct 3, 2016 | 4:43pm EDT
Clashes broke out in Honduras on Monday as police fired tear gas on demonstrators blocking highway toll stations in protest against efforts by the ruling party to enable presidential re-election and keep the incumbent Juan Hernandez in power.
The protesters were also demonstrating against increases in highway toll rates and the cost of electricity.
Urged on by the opposition Liberty and Refoundation Party (LIBRE), protesters took toll stations in the center and north of the Central American country, sparking clashes in which at least 14 people were arrested, a police official said.
LIBRE is the party of former president Manuel Zelaya, who was deposed in a 2009 coup after a bitter political stand-off over re-election, which Hernandez's party has backed for the next vote, due towards the end of 2017.
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(The right wingers accused Zelaya of trying to get the voters to back him for another term, and overthrew him. Now they want another term for the right-winger who is overseeing a horrendously violent struggle, which was NOT happening with Mel Zelaya the one who raised minimum wage, created medical care for poor people, etc. Everything's back in the hands of the right-wing murderous oligarchs.)