News Links about Honduras

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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Location:Honduras
Title:Travel Warning U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Bureau of Consular Affairs
Author/Source:U.S. Department Of State
Brief:The Department of State continues to warn U.S. citizens that the crime and violence levels in Honduras remain critically high.
Location:Honduras
Category:News Email, Public Security, U.S. Policy
Title:US senators urge Kerry to review Honduras aid
Author/Source:Associated Press
Brief:The senators expressed disappointment with the Honduran government's efforts to address corruption and criminality in the police force, which they call a disappointing failure.
Location:Honduras
Category:Public Security
Title:Monsenor Emiliani cuestiona al presidente Porfirio Lobo por su apoyo "tibio" a la tregua
Author/Source:El Faro, El Faro (El Salvador)
Brief:Tres de los principales actores del proceso de pacificacion salvadoreno –monsenor Colindres, Raul Mijango y Adam Blackwell– llegaron el lunes a una carcel de San Pedro Sula para mostrar su respaldo al proceso.

Monday, June 17, 2013

Location:Honduras
Category:Elections, Politics And Security
Title:Xiomara Castro lanza candidatura en Honduras
Author/Source:Associated Press
El Nuevo Herald
Brief:Castro es la esposa de Manuel Zelaya, presidente derrocado por un golpe de estado en junio del 2009 y enviado por el Ejercito al exilio

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Location:Honduras
Category:Civil-Military Relations, Defense Budgets, News Email, Public Security
Title:Honduras Expands Armed Forces as Police Reform Flounders
Author/Source:Claire O'Neill McCleskey
InSight Crime
Brief:Prior to its approval, the decree was subject to a fierce debate among legislators. Sergio Castellanos, a representative from the Democratic Unification party, argued that Honduras needed 1,000 more police more than the Army needed troops
Location:Honduras
Category:U.S. Policy
Title:I Didn't Block An Investigation Into Drug War Deaths, Says State Department Official
Author/Source:John Hudson
Foreign Policy
Brief:"Allegations in the press that I stymied an investigation into a shooting incident in Honduras are false," he told The Cable. "The issue was never whether the incident would be investigated, but rather which U.S. Government organization wou

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Location:Honduras
Category:Corruption, News Email, Public Security
Title:Effort to clean up Honduras police force stalls
Author/Source:Alberto Arce
Associated Press
The Miami Herald
Brief:By April of this year, the Honduran government said it had dismissed a mere seven police from the more-than-11,000-member force
Location:Honduras
Category:News Email, Public Security
Title:En lo que va de 2013 se registran 160 homicidios menos que en 2012
Author/Source:El Heraldo (Honduras)
Brief:De acuerdo a las estadisticas, del 1 de enero al 9 de junio de 2012, se reporto la muerte violenta de 3,238 personas. En el mismo periodo de este ano, la cifra es de 3,078 homicidios

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Location:Honduras
Category:News Email, Public Security
Title:Al desnudo desorden, calamidad y vulnerabilidad de Policia Nacional
Author/Source:El Heraldo (Honduras)
Brief:El ministro de Seguridad, Arturo Corrales, dejo al descubierto anoche el desorden administrativo, corrupcion y caos organizacional que ha enfrentado la Secretaria de Seguridad
Location:Honduras
Category:News Email, Public Security
Title:Al desnudo desorden, calamidad y vulnerabilidad de Policia Nacional
Author/Source:El Heraldo (Honduras)
Brief:El ministro de Seguridad, Arturo Corrales, dejo al descubierto anoche el desorden administrativo, corrupcion y caos organizacional que ha enfrentado la Secretaria de Seguridad

Monday, June 10, 2013

Location:Honduras
Category:Public Security
Title:Ganging up on violence in Honduras
Author/Source:Mike Allison
Al Jazeera
Brief:There is a general consensus that the Honduran gangs are not as centralised as the Salvadoran gangs, which will make gang leaders' enforcement of a truce more difficult

Monday, June 3, 2013

Location:Honduras
Category:Public Security
Title:Asesinan a exjefe policial que habia reprobado examenes de confianza
Author/Source:El Faro (El Salvador)
Brief:Habia salido de la Policia luego de que su nombre aparecio en octubre de 2012 en una lista de 56 oficiales que reprobaron las pruebas de confianza impuestas por las autoridades

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