Honduras - Regional radio journalist murdered by assailant with machete

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Fausto Flores Valle, 54, the presenter of the news programme “La Voz de la Notícia” on Radio Alegre de Colón, was hacked to death yesterday in Sabá, in the northeastern department of Colón. Flores was returning home by bicycle when he got into a violent argument with a man who hit him 18 times with a machete before fleeing without taking any of his belongings. “This particularly foul murder is the latest example of the chaotic security situation in Honduras, marked by the still open wounds of the (...)

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