Thousands march in Honduras to protest election result

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Los Angeles Times - 12/01/13, Richard Fausset

 

Xiomara Castro

In Tegucigalpa, Honduras, presidential runner-up Xiomara Castro rides on the roof of a car carrying the coffin of a supporter killed a day earlier during a protest.
(Fernando Antonio / Associated Press / December 1, 2013)


Thousands of leftists marched in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa on Sunday to protest — peacefully but vehemently — the Nov. 24 election of a conservative presidential candidate that they say was marked by fraud.

The protesters, many sporting red baseball caps or waving red banners, were led by Xiomara Castro, the candidate of the left-wing Free Party, and her husband, Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted from the presidency in a 2009 coup.

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