Journalist supporting former president killed

A journalist supporter of a former president of Honduras was killed after sustaining nine gunshots from a group of assassins last September 8 in Bijao, Puerto Cortés City, Comité por la Libre Expresión (C-Libre) reported.

Radio UNO journalist Medardo Flores, 62, an ally of former president Manuel Zelaya Rosales,  was ambushed on Thursday evening  by unidentified assailants, according to Radio UNO director Arnulfo Aguilar.

Aguilar added that the ambush occurred in Río Blanquito in the community of Bijao, while Flores was driving back to his ranch in Puerto Cortés City.

Radio UNO,  located in San Pedro Sula,  northwest of Honduras, analyzed current sociopolitical and cultural issues in the country.

He was also in charge of the finances of the Front for Popular Resistance (Frente Amplio de Resistencia Popular, FARP) in northern Honduras. The FARP is a political and social movement funded by the former president.

Flores was slain a day after another FARP member Emmo Sadloo was killed on the premises of his business in Tegucigalpa, capital city of Honduras.

Flores was also a volunteer reporter for the station and the president of the Asociación de Padres de Familia del Instituto de Locución Primero de Diciembre, a quasi-official educational institution operating in San Pedro Sula for the last 10 years.

Flores was the fifth journalist killed in Honduras this year according to the International Press Institute’s Death Watch. (C-Libre/IFEX)