Juan Ángel Almendares Bonilla
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Juan Ángel Almendares Bonilla is a Honduran
physician, politician and human rights activist. He ran as part of the Democratic Unification Party
in the 2005 Honduran general election
, finishing in third place with 1.5% of the vote. Almendares currently serves as the co-chair of the Honduran Committee for Peace Action (COHAPAZ). He is a trained medical doctor, and was the recipient of the 2001 Barbara Chester Award for his work with victims of torture
. Almendares was an outspoken critic of the 2009 Honduras coup d'état that overthrew the elected President
Manuel Zelaya
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Honduras
Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...
physician, politician and human rights activist. He ran as part of the Democratic Unification Party
Democratic Unification Party
The Democratic Unification Party is a left-wing political party in Honduras. PUD was founded on 29 September 1992 by the merger of four leftist clandestine or semiclandestine political parties, in the context of the changed political situation in Central America at that period, following the end...
in the 2005 Honduran general election
Honduran general election, 2005
General elections were held in Honduras to elect the President of Honduras, Vice-President, and deputies to the National Congress of Honduras on 27 November, 2005. For the 2005 election the constitution was amended to create a single vice-president...
, finishing in third place with 1.5% of the vote. Almendares currently serves as the co-chair of the Honduran Committee for Peace Action (COHAPAZ). He is a trained medical doctor, and was the recipient of the 2001 Barbara Chester Award for his work with victims of torture
Torture
Torture is the act of inflicting severe pain as a means of punishment, revenge, forcing information or a confession, or simply as an act of cruelty. Throughout history, torture has often been used as a method of political re-education, interrogation, punishment, and coercion...
. Almendares was an outspoken critic of the 2009 Honduras coup d'état that overthrew the elected President
President
A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...
Manuel Zelaya
Manuel Zelaya
José Manuel Zelaya Rosales is a politician who was President of Honduras from January 27, 2006 until June 28, 2009. The eldest son of a wealthy businessman, he inherited his father's nickname "Mel," and, before entering politics, was involved in his family's logging and timber businesses.Elected...
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