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after his election and the US continued to send military and security aid for drug enforcement and crime. The US broke off assistance for four months to the
Hondurans in their fight against drug trafficking after the Honduran Air Force shot down several airplanes in a violation of international law in July 2012. Impunity in Honduras, especially in the high visibility cases of journalists and lawyers, is one factor behind members of the US Congress applying pressure on the US administration to withhold $ 50 million in aid unless Honduras was able to show an improvement in its human rights situation. According to a report in
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124:. A former journalist, he went into public relations for Asociación Kukulcán. He was also known to be a "Zelayista" activist. Days after his announcement to run as a Resistencia Party congressional candidate in the November elections, Martínez went missing and was found strangled to death about 3 kilometers from the capital.
154:. He contributed to a number of HIV publications, where he brought light to issues concerning HIV and human rights in Honduras. He was best known as the spokesman of Kukulcán. In this organization he co-facilitated the Speaking Out! regional HIV advocacy training for MSM and transgender advocates. This was held in
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had lost to Zelaya in 2005 and ran again and won in the
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