The body of Erick Martinez, a Honduran journalist and gay-rights campaigner, was found in a ditch in Guasculile today after he went missing two days ago, according to the BBC.
Honduras has the highest murder rate per capita in the entire world, so to say that this is not surprising is not to say it isn’t tragic.
Since dictator Manuel Zelaya was ousted three years ago, over 20 journalists and at least 20, possibly as many as 70, LGBT people have been killed in the country.
Hopefully this will put the fire under the UN’s butt to get into action and get things right in Honduras. The U.S. State Department is supposed to have started on it, as Hillary Clinton promised.
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Good grief
This is tragic.
But I take issue with your characterization of of Zelaya. He was democratically elected and overthrown in a military coup. Zelaya was initiating such dangerous measures as a rise in the minimum wage in a country where 60 percent live in poverty. This kind of talk was threatening to the elites, and to U.S. military and commercial interests there, so he had to go. President Obama separated the United States from almost all of Latin America and Europe by accepting the military coup ousting him and endorsing the subsequent sham elections held under military rule.
It is telling that you state that since Zelaya was ousted three years ago, over 20 journalists and at least 20, possibly as many as 70, LGBT people have been killed in the country. Remember, this is happening under the regime that Obama blessed.
kuy
How is a guy who was democratically elected and overthrown in a coup d’état, a dictator?
Jeff
RIP
Joseph
Yo, Queerty, we’re still waiting for you to correct this: Zelaya wasn’t a dictator.
Good grief
Kuy and Joseph, Queerty’s Latin-American reportage all has the same slant. I think it is more telling of the background of their Spanish “reporter” than anything else.