Thousands
of protesters have marched through the capital of Honduras calling on
President Juan Orlando Hernandez to resign after he admitted his 2013
presidential campaign took money from companies linked to a major
corruption scandal.
Many
of them bearing torches, demonstrators on Friday shouted “JOH out, JOH
out”, using Hernandez’s initials, as they marched through the centre of
Tegucigalpa to the local offices of the UN, where they demanded the
creation of an anti-corruption commission.
Protest
organisers said up to 20,000 took part in the demonstration, while a
reporter from the Reuters news agency estimated about 8,000 were in
attendance.
The
protest came after Hernandez acknowledged that his election campaign
received financing from business people linked to a social security
embezzlement scandal that investigators allege involved millions of
dollars misspent on marked-up goods and services.
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