Police in Honduras on Tuesday arrested eight people, including Jorge Neptaly Romero Mejía mayor of Talanga a town close to the capital city of Tegucigalpa and a former policeman ex-Sub-Commissioner Álvaro García, on charges of links to one of the country’s most feared criminal gangs. Arrest were carried out following a long investigation involving over […]
As part of Operation Armadillo, last week members of the Honduran military began the destruction of six clandestine airstrips. Explosive experts from the Battalion of Engineers (Batallón de Ingenieros) and members of the Naval Armed Forces are gutting elusive landing areas suspected of being used by narcotraffickers. The first strip destroyed with dynamite was located […]
Evidence suggests that drug traffickers are building more runways in Honduras to transport their drugs. For many, the logic of why the business grew in the country is clear: profits are juicy and the risk is minimal. Honduras has already protested to agencies like the UN and OAS, the invasion of Venezuelan planes. Some attribute […]