Juan Ángel Almendares Bonilla is a Honduran physician, politician and human rights activist. A former Dean of Medicine of the Hospital Esquela at the Honduran National Autonomous University, Almendares taught for many years and operates a free clinic in the capital city of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He ran as part of the

Democratic Unification Party The Democratic Unification Party (; PUD) is a centre-left political party in Honduras. PUD was founded on 29 September 1992 by the merger of four leftist clandestine or semiclandestine political parties, in the context of the changed political sit ...

in the

2005 Honduran general election General elections were held in Honduras to elect the President of Honduras, vice-president, and deputies to the National Congress of Honduras on 27 November 2005. For the 2005 election the constitution was amended to create a single vice-preside ...

, finishing in third place with 1.5% of the vote. Almendares currently serves as the co-chair of the Honduran Committee for Peace Action (COHAPAZ). Dr. Almendares received his training at

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, and was the recipient of the 2001 Barbara Chester Award for his work with victims of

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. Almendares was an outspoken critic of the 2009 Honduras coup d'état that overthrew the elected

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