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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 03 April 2020

HONDURAS: Hernández challenged as protesters defy curfew

This week the national police announced that over 700 people had been arrested for failing to heed the “absolute curfew” announced by President Juan Orlando Hernández on 20 March (since extended until 12 April) to stop the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19). The arrests come amid other sporadic signs of unrest as protesters in the capital, Tegucigalpa, and elsewhere, take to the streets demanding food and basic supplies. These demands come despite Hernández’s pledge to begin a ‘solidarity bag’ food provision scheme to guarantee food security, as part of wider economic measures to mitigate the impact of the pandemic which has exposed the precarious situation facing many due to high levels of informality and poverty.

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