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Honduras finished 2022 with a homicide rate of 35.79 per person 100,000 inhabitantsthe lowest figure in 16 years in one of the most violent countries in the world, reported this Sunday Security Secretary.
In addition, the security report of the first year of the presidential administration Chiomara Castro highlights the extradition for drug trafficking to the United States of the outgoing ex-governor Juan Orlando Hernandezlast April 21st.
“Since 2006, the country has not recorded such a low number of crimes as murder,” the government agency said in a statement.
The reduction in homicides was achieved by “implementing new security strategies,” he adds.
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According to statistics, total 1371 members of maras and gangs were captured.in addition to 307 criminal gangs scattered, dedicated to the sale of drugs, drug trafficking, extortion and other crimes.
It also guarantees that 44 of the country’s 298 municipalities are free of homicides “thanks to the implementation of preventive, deterrent, control and operational actions that have strengthened the security of citizens.”
In addition, the report states that in 2022, “12 arrest warrants were issued for extradition at the request of the US Department of Justice, including former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez and (a) former director of the National Police. by Juan Carlos Bonilla.
On July 27, Honduras also extradited to the United States Herlinda Bobadilla, 61, the leader of a clan of suspected drug dealers, who will stand trial in Virginia.
USA claims issuance to members of the family clan and offers a reward of $5 million for each. They are accused of supplying drugs and laundering drug proceeds through Central America, Colombia, Mexico D USAaccording to Washington.
However, the most high-profile case was the extradition of the former president, accused of exporting 500 tons of cocaine to the United States between 2004 and 2022. His brother J.Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernandez in March 2021, he was sentenced to life in prison.
Criminal violence in Honduras is primarily due to drug dealers and gang members, which has led the Central American nation to record such a rate of murders per person. 100,000 inhabitantsfour times the world average.
(AFP)
Source: RPP
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