Gunmen attack Honduran newspaper owner, kill 6-year-old granddaughter

[Judi Lynn]

Gunmen attack Honduran newspaper owner, kill 6-year-old granddaughter
43-year-old Manzanares is the owner of the local newspaper La Tribuna
AP
Published: 08:31 May 9, 2010

Tegucigalpa, Honduras: Two unidentified men shot at a newspaper owner who once served as the head of security for the Honduran presidency, killing his 6-year-old granddaughter.

Police spokesman Leonel Sauceda says Lucas Manzanares was traveling in his car with his daughter Magda and granddaughter Adriana in the capital of Tegucigalpa on Saturday when two men on foot shot at him at least 30 times and then fled.

The 43-year-old Manzanares is the owner of the local newspaper La Tribuna.

He served as head of security for then-President Carlos Flores Facusse, who governed from 1998-2004.

http://gulfnews.com/news/world/other-world/gunmen-attack-honduran-newspaper-owner-kill-6-year-old-granddaughter-1.624405

[rabs]

1. The mother of the child was also killed

Looks like open season on Honduran journalists continues. Went looking to see why the attack but there is nothing conclusive. La Tribuna is classified as a conservative newspaper, it supported the ouster of Zelaya, but it also published articles critical of goriletti ... so the attack could have come from both sides or drug traffickers or who knows who.
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Muere madre e hija en atentado
Sucesos 9 Mayo, 2010
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TEGUCIGALPA.- Varios individuos atacaron ayer a tiros en pleno centro de la capital a un alto empleado de confianza de diario LA TRIBUNA, quien resultó gravemente herido, mientras que su hija y su nieta fallecieron minutos después del atentado, cuando eran atendidas en un centro asistencial.

Las víctimas mortales fueron identificadas como Magda Oricela Manzanarez Castro (26) y su pequeña hija Adriana Michel Muñoz Manzanarez (6), quienes fallecieron cuando eran atendidas en un centro asistencial privado.

En el hecho criminal resultó gravemente herido Lucas Manzanarez (57), alto empleado de confianza de este rotativo, quien además de su hija y su nieta era acompañado por su esposa Magda Esmelita Castro que resultó ilesa.

http://www.latribuna.hn/web2.0/?p=129423

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La Tribuna is one of the main newspapers in Honduras. Published in Tegucigalpa, with more than 100,000 daily copies, is known for its bias in favor of the Liberal Party of Honduras (Honduran “Liberal Party” tends to be conservative). Its founder, Oscar A. Flores, was a known liberal politician, and his son —former President Carlos Roberto Flores— is one of its major shareholders, and one who oversees and write the editorials.

La Tribuna, a conservative-leaning newspaper, took side with those who adverse Manuel Zelaya Rosales in the political crisis that led to his ouster, crisis that threatened to destroy democracy in Honduras. However, in order to maintain a balance of information, La Tribuna also published the views of the followers of Zelaya, and published the international news that branded as "de facto government" the interim administration of Roberto Micheletti.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Looks as if they had them cornered on a narrow street without options for escape.

Using motorcycles to enable them to get in and out of traffic quickly is a "time-honored" tradition of paramilitary sicarious in Colombia. That's how they lay waste to many victims.

So three generations were involved as victims and targets in this assassination attempt. Horrendous.

No doubt the same people will kill someone, then claim they have caught and killed the killers in a shoot-out and that will close the "investigation."

That looks like such an impossible place for a family in a large vehicle to escape, doesn't it? What a shame.

Thanks for the information.

[flamingdem]

3. This is getting no coverage, Honduras is off limits for the MSM nt

[Judi Lynn]

4. No doubt that's the way it's going to stay, too. This country's CIA and Defense Department

have invested decades of trying to eliminate the left in Latin America, and our corporate media's not going to allow any straight information to get through to us concerning real events with political value anywhere in the countries south of here.

It's a rotten shame.