Hondurans rally against corruption back home
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This article was published 29/06/2015 (3772 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The situation in Honduras is grim, with corruption running rampant, say a group of Honduran immigrants who gathered in Brandon’s Stanley Park yesterday to tell the public what is happening in their native country.
Honduran news reports suggest that President Juan Hernandez’s National Party stole more than $350 million from the national health-care system in order to fund his 2013 election campaign.
As a result, there have been protests in Honduras calling for Hernandez to resign.
“There’s a lot of corruption right now in Honduras, and people are trying to stop that like for a very long time now,” said 15-year-old Lenin Yanes, who attended the Brandon demonstration with his family last night.
Though Yanes’ family came to Brandon five years ago, they still have relatives in Honduras.
While the situation is difficult, they want the end of corruption not just for their family, but for the whole country.
Honduran immigrants held posters and signs at the demonstration with messages calling for the end to the corruption and for Hernandez to be taken out of office.
Carlos Pez, a Honduran immigrant who has been in Canada for seven years, believes strongly about putting an end to the corruption.
“I want Hernandez out as president. I want a new one. I want the best one,” Pez said.
Leonardo Hernandez organized the rally in order to show the people of Honduras that they have the support of people here in Brandon.
“(The Hondurans) feel happy when they see the pictures from the guys in the United States and all of Europe and here in Canada too,” Hernandez said.
Hernandez said that the problems in Honduras with corruption has affected the health-care system.
He said that doctors aren’t getting paid, there’s no medicine for people and the hospitals have no equipment.
“If our children get sick and we go to the hospital, sometimes there’s no medicine and the doctors say well if you find medicine it’s good. To go to the private pharmacy you have to pay really high prices because there’s not enough medicine in the hospitals,” Hernandez said.
Hernandez has been in Brandon for two years working at Maple Leaf, but his wife and children are still in Honduras. He sends money back to help them.
“It’s a little bit easier for us, but the rest of the people back there, it’s not so easy for them,” Hernandez said.
Hernandez has helped to organize a group of Honduran immigrants in Brandon to work toward helping their native country.
They, along with people around the world, are working to get an international commission from the United Nations for Honduras because they believe Hondurans can’t trust their own government.
To find out more information or to help out, visit the Brandon Honduran immigrants’ Facebook page at “Indignados Brandon Canada.”
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