The Salvadoran media organization El Faro reports from the Honduran province of Copan, rumored to be a hideout of drug lord ‘El Chapo,’ which sits on the mouth of the “road of death” trafficking route that winds from Nicaragua north to Guatemala. The following is InSight Crime’s translation of extracts from El Faro’s report: Talking […]
Deputy Minister of Security, Armando Calidonio, announced that Honduras is to receive support from the World Bank and the United States to step up security and help combat drug trafficking. Minister Calidonio made the announcement following meetings held in Washington with the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Janeth Napolitano, Deputy Defense Secretary, Frank Mora, and […]
Central America Remains a Hotspot of Instability WASHINGTON, March 31, 2011 – Central America remains a hot spot of instability caused by violent criminal organizations that use drug money to undermine legitimate governments, the commander of U.S. Southern Command said here yesterday. Air Force Gen. Douglas M. Fraser said the northern triangle formed by Guatemala, […]
Josue Oviedo looked into his sister’s fading eyes as she fought to speak her last words. “She was trying to tell me something,” he said, a day after the funeral for Daisy Oviedo Mejía;, 22, who died in a storm of bullets while watching her brother play soccer a few weeks ago. “But she couldn’t. […]
The country that will receive the most attention during President Barack Obama’s ongoing visit to Latin America — other than Libya — will be Brazil, but the place where he will probably have the biggest, and most needed, impact will be Central America. Fifteen years after the end of Central America’s civil wars, this region […]