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On 24 November 2022, the government of Honduras declared a state of emergency regarding gang violence in the country. [6] On 3 December 2022, the government announced that some constitutional rights would be suspended in the cities of Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula to crack down on criminal gangs in those two cities, particularly Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and 18th Street Gang.
July 6 – The government of Honduras releases a report stating that the deportation of Honduran migrants from Mexico and the United States increased by 84.4% during the first half of the year. [7] July 24 – Police in Honduras intensify their crackdown on gangs in response to last week's murder of the son of former president Porfirio Lobo ...
The extradition treaty remains in force, according to a U.S. State Department spokesperson who spoke on background. US urges Honduras to reconsider treaty withdrawal as president warns of plot ...
Honduran President Xiomara Castro declared a state of emergency on December 6, 2022, in order to target gangs and other criminal organizations. This followed a similar strategy implemented earlier in the year by El Salvador that led to tens of thousands of arrests.
For years, Juan Carlos Bonilla, better known as “El Tigre,” was a feared figure in Honduras. Hernández was extradited to the U.S. in April 2022, just three months after leaving office, and ...
Honduras will return control of most of the country's penal system to the military police for the next year, the Central American country's presidential office said late on Wednesday, a day after ...
On 25 November 2022, a state of emergency was declared to deal with crime. [56] Initially instituted for forty-five days in two municipalities, Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, the state of exception has been renewed and extended to more than half of the country's cities. The government strengthened police resources, built several high-security ...
A mayor in Honduras was arrested on Sunday on charges of working with drug cartels to smuggle 90 tons of cocaine to the United States by boat and plane. Mayor Wilmer Manolo Wood of Brus Laguna, in ...