The U.S. Coast Guard has seized a shipment of more than two tons of cocaine off the coast of Honduras. Authorities in Miami said Thursday that a Coast Guard force operating from the Navy ship U.S.S. Oak Hill discovered the drugs aboard a motorboat. It was stopped in international waters of the Gulf of Mexico […]
In the most murderous part of the most murderous country in the world, the families of murdered sons and husbands and sisters meet each month in a concrete building next to the Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe church. They sit in plastic chairs, leaning forward to speak, and the anguish pours out. There is the dread […]
Late on a moonless night last March, a plane smuggling nearly half a ton of cocaine touched down at a remote airstrip in Honduras. A heavily armed ground crew was waiting for it — as were Honduran security forces. After a 20-minute firefight, a Honduran officer was wounded and two drug traffickers lay dead. Several […]
According to a Honduran law introduced in July of 2010, and approved by Congress in November, three government ministries should each receive 26% of forfeited criminal assets: the State Security Ministry, the Defense Ministry, and the Public Ministry. Another ten percent is intended to be used as bonus salaries for police and firemen, and another […]
Police authorities, the Public Ministry and the Directorate for the Fight Against Drug Trafficking (DLCN) burned 470 kilograms of cocaine, which were confiscated on August 14th in Arenales, Yoro. The incineration of the drug took place at 10:00 am at the municipal crematorium, along the road to Olancho, and it had a cost of 106 […]