Surge in Cocaine Trafficking through Honduras
Al Jazeera’s Monica Villamizar reports from Colón in Honduras.
Al Jazeera’s Monica Villamizar reports from Colón in Honduras.
A drug-laden boat was intercepted by the Navy of Honduras in Gracias a Dios yesterday. The ship was carrying 36 bales of cocaine, but it is estimated that the total amount can reach about a ton and a half of the powdery substance. The Chief of Staff, René Osorio Canales, said in a press conference […]
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. […]
During a special operation, authorities uncovered a drug lab operating in the mountains of El Merendón, in the northern region of Honduras. The “narco laboratorio” was found in the El Rancho area in the Municipality of Choloma, within the Department of Cortés according to preliminary information. Authorities were working to put an end to drugs […]
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 […]