Juan Ángel Almendares Bonilla is a Honduran physician, politician and human rights activist. He ran as part of the Democratic Unification Party in the 2005 Honduran general election, 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).[1] He is a trained medical doctor,[2] and was the recipient of the 2001 Barbara Chester Award for his work with victims of torture.[3] Almendares was an outspoken critic of the 2009 Honduras coup d'état that overthrew the elected President Manuel Zelaya.[4]