This add to the dozens of stories of yesterday's police and military brutality, in response to striking teachers' demands for living wages and adequate conditions in which to teach the nation's poor (since the rich almost without exception go to private schools).

Police beat up Canal 36 journalist
Friday August 20, 2010

The journalist Richard Casulá from Canal 36 and his cameraman were attacked by the police while covering the removal of teachers in the country's capital.

The official statement of the police spokesman Leonel Sauceda justified the attack on the teachers, because a journalist from Radio America allegedly had been attacked by the teachers. Nonetheless, Casulá, rather than being protected, was attacked by the police themselves who were supposedly concerned about the security of the other journalist.

The journalist was beaten and they tried to stop his cameraman from filming images of the police brutality.

Casulá has been subject to police brutality previously, following the coup d'etat against Manuel Zelaya Rosales.

Tegucigalpa 20 de agosto de 2010. El periodista Richard Casulá, del canal 36 y su camarógrafo, fueron agredidos por la policía mientras cubrían el desalojo de los maestros en la capital del país.

Las declaraciones del vocero de la policía Leonel Sauceda, justificó el ataque a los docentes, porque supuestamente un periodista de Radio América, habría sufrido una agresión por parte de los docentes. Sin embargo, Casulá, en lugar de ser protegido, recibió agresiones de los mismos policías, supuestamente preocupados por la seguridad de otro periodista.

El periodista fue golpeado y pretendieron impedir que su camarógrafo grabara imágenes de la brutalidad policial.

Anteriormente, Casulá ha recibido agresiones de la policía, después del golpe de Estado, contra Manuel Zelaya Rosales.