In Honduras' chaos, a man's killing tells a nation's story

Source: Associated Press

In Honduras' chaos, a man's killing tells a nation's story
By ALBERTO ARCE, Associated Press
10 hrs ago


TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A surveillance camera captured it all: Rigoberto Paredes shoved the lawyer into an elevator and stabbed him 10 times with a small knife before he slit Eduardo Montes' throat. The assailant tried to escape down a stairwell, but was caught by security guards.

"Nobody told me to do this — this was for the people. The people deserved this," Paredes declared in a taped confession.

The murder video was widely circulated, but rather than condemn the brutality, many Hondurans defended Paredes as a national hero for standing up to corruption. Some went so far as to say that a country sickened by theft and scandal was the real cause of the death.

Paredes justified the killing by saying Montes had defended politicians accused of embezzling money from the country's social security system in which an estimated $400 million assigned for hospitals and medications simply disappeared. And Montes aspired to a seat on the Supreme Court.

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