News of crime fighting in Honduras. Highlights of work being performed by security officials and efforts made toward fighting crime nation-wide.
MACCIH “The (mission) is an unprecedented initiative aimed at producing structural reform in the administration of Honduran justice,” stated Juan Jimenez former Peruvian justice minister, who will serve as the leader and spokesman . He said $22 billion or 2 percent of Honduras’ gross domestic product is lost to corruption every year. In January, Honduran […]
Homicides in Honduras fell 12 percent in 2015 thanks in part to the capture and extradition to the United States of drug cartel bosses, a United Nations-backed organization said on Wednesday. The murder rate in Honduras dropped to 60 per 100,000 people from the 2014 rate of 68 per 100,000 people, according to the respected […]
U.S. Special Forces are engaged in the fight against Honduras street gangs in an effort to prevent the violence that causes illegal immigration into the United States, The Wall Street Journal reports. In Honduras, U.S. forces aid a local SWAT team called the Tigres, who target violent street gang members, but Americans stay in the […]
The success of the Central American Law Enforcement Exchange (CALEE) program hinges on bringing together U.S. and Central American law enforcement officers who share a common cause in the fight against violent transnational gangs. During the most recent CALEE, an important new partner was added to the group—prosecutors. “We have seen that when prosecutors and […]
Honduran president José Orlando Hernández signed an anti-corruption and accountability mission into existence Tuesday at the Organization of American States, months after its initial announcement in September. The mission, called MACCIH for its Spanish initials, was announced after public outcry for accountability following a major corruption scandal within the Honduran Social Security Institute that led […]