Weekly Report - 13 August 2015 (WR-15-32)

After 11 weeks of torchlit marches by protesters incensed by revelations of institutional corruption in Honduras, a dialogue process is tentatively underway. The protest movement, named after Spain’s indignados (outraged), is demanding the establishment of an anti-impunity commission along the lines of Guatemala’s Cicig, backed by the United Nations (UN), to root out this corruption, and is suspicious of a dialogue process proposed by President Juan Orlando Hernández on 23 June. Representatives of the indignados and civil society organisations did agree, however, to meet Luis Almagro, the secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), who visited Honduras on 7 August to broker talks.