Honduras News – Daily News about Honduras

At dawn, three unidentified men killed the head of National Bureau of Investigation, (DNIC) in the department of Cortes, Walter Iván Romero Alvarenga, inspector of the municipality of La Lima.

His lifeless body was found inside an Isuzu green pickup truck. On the scene there were several AK-47 nine-millimeter caps strewn about.

According to information from the regional head of the National Police of Honduras for the department of Cortes, Guillermo Arias, three unidentified assailants gunned down the head of the DNIC when he was talking with some friends at 12:30 am (6:30 am GMT) in the neighborhood of El Centro.

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Lured here from Honduras on false promises, two sisters who expected to clean houses or care for children instead found depravity and exploitation in the shadows of Palm Beach County’s sex trade.

For most of a year, the young women were forced to dance for groping men in grimy nightclubs and to sell sex in a trailer park nearby, investigators said. They suffered invisibly until one of them got pregnant, and the FBI started an investigation.

In the months that followed, one of the people associated with the sisters’ misery was held accountable.

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Doris Patalano nearly 20 years ago started an orphanage to benefit children in South Florida and Honduras, Central America. Her most recent contribution was to organize a clothing drive for those children; but it has turned into a nightmare, despite the good intentions of those mixed up in the controversy. (Original story at end of article below.)

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