Amid Protests, Honduran President Is Sworn In for 2nd Term<br />The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Honduras<br />have called on security forces to stop what they called the "illegal and excessive use of force" to break up protests.<br />27, 2018<br />TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Facing a polarized nation in the aftermath of a disputed election, Juan<br />Orlando Hernández was sworn in on Saturday for a second term as president of Honduras.<br />Raúl Pineda Alvarado said that Politically, they picked the worst moment to approve this law,<br />Juan Jiménez Mayor, a former prime minister of Peru, who leads the anticorruption panel, denounced the law<br />and said it would block investigations into as many as 60 current and former Honduran legislators, as well as high-ranking officials in the government.<br />Edmundo Orellana said that This is a decision taken at the highest political levels of the country and it is irreversible,<br />As many as 22 people have been killed by security forces, according to a tally by<br />the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras, a human rights group.
