{"id":2501,"date":"2009-12-16T06:06:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T04:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2009-12-16T18:22:25","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T16:22:25","slug":"gay-activist-killed-in-honduras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/gay-activist-killed-in-honduras\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay activist killed in Honduras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2503\" title=\"gay activist shot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/gay-activist-shot-311x202-custom.jpg\" alt=\"gay activist shot\" width=\"311\" height=\"202\" \/>The Honduran police have promised on Tuesday to investigate the murder of a gay rights activist who also was amongst protesters that rallied in the June coup that toppled President Manuel Zelaya.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The anti-coup National Resistance Front said gunmen in a vehicle had shot at and wounded Walter Trochez on Sunday as he was walking in Tegucigalpa. Trochez was taken to a hospital by friends that were near by but could not be saved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trochez was an active militant in the resistance and an example of the fight against the dictatorship,&#8221; the group said in a statement released on the day the victim was buried.<\/p>\n<p>The front, which until recently staged daily protests to demand Zelaya&#8217;s restoration to the presidency, blamed the attack &#8220;on the repressive forces that the oligarchy uses to stop the demands of the Honduran people for liberty and democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesman Orlin Cerrato said the case was &#8220;being exhaustively investigated.&#8221; He named no suspects but dismissed the possibility that police were involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honduran polica have promiced on Tuesday to investigate the murder of a gay rights activist who also was amongst protesters that rallied in the June coup that toppled President Manuel Zelaya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,118,34,101],"tags":[3346,3345,3343,3347,3344,1988],"class_list":["post-2501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-hot","category-latin-america","category-politics","tag-anti-coup","tag-anti-coup-national-resistance-front","tag-honduran-police","tag-honuras-police","tag-national-resistance-front","tag-president-manuel-zelaya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}