3.6 tons of cocaine were seized this week in international waters that were headed for Honduras, Venezuelan Interior Minister Tareck El Aissami said. The Venezuelan official made his remarks to the press at the naval base in Puerto Cabello, the country’s biggest port, where the drug-smuggling ship and the navy vessels that nabbed it are […]
The tiny village of Las Marias lies on the banks of the Rio Platano, deep in the heart of Mosquitia, Honduras – the so-called “Little Amazon” of Central America, the largest area of tropical rainforest north of the Amazon Basin. In recent years, however, Mosquitia’s magnificent isolation has been shattered by intruders: drug smugglers and […]
The Honduran National Police have started 2011 with a cleanup campaign in several neighboring areas of the capital. Eight people were arrested including four of the Mara 18 gang. “Among those captured were Danis Alonso Ruiz, who had an arrest warrant for the crime of rape, Ena Gladys García Romero, who had an arrest warrant […]
Miguel Ángel Villela Meza was captured over the weekend in Colombia with six other members of an international drug trafficking and weapons network. Miguel Ángel Villela Meza accepted the charges against him from the Colombia authorities. Óscar Álvarez, the Honduran security minister, is under fire today because he declared yesterday at a news conference, that […]
The Honduran Police have seized 460 kg of cocaine in Brus Laguna. The seizure took place in the Department of Gracias a Dios according to police spokesman Leonel Sauceda, with help from the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The drug traffickers were preparing to load the drug onto three speedboats when the police and National […]