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“No one associated with drug trafficking or intimidated by drug traffickers would ever fight for extradition,” the president of Honduras said yesterday. Juan Orlando Hernandez Bee National Congress after calling a meeting National Defense and Security Council.
Reporting on progress on security issues, Hernández said he had put forward a proposal for the establishment of the anti-Maras circuit and that they will work with the judicial department and the prosecution service in the coming days.
“There is a team of experts who have recommended that we migrate from the anti-extortion circuit to one that includes other crimes and other illegal activities that could be the new jurisdiction to deal with maras and gangs and acts of terrorism”, he said .
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Armed Forces Report AA Tito Livio Moreno, Chief of the Armed Forces (FF AA), said they have been working for years to confront common and organized crime, against drug trafficking and any threat that wants to harm the Honduran population. The Colonel pointed out that people who break the law will use any trick to diminish the work done, if there are clear statistics, facts and results against drug trafficking. |
Laws
Hernández recalled that less than 15 years ago, drug planes filled the sky Honduras and that the embassy of U.S In the country, he stated that at the time the government was so closely linked to organized crime that cooperation between law enforcement officials was impossible. “The drug cartels and gangs operated with impunity,” he recalls.
“In 2010, when I took over the chairmanship of the National CongressFrom the legislature, we passed a series of eight security laws that were hated and feared by drug traffickers, ”he said.
Luis SUazo, Ambassador to Washington. |
Under those laws, one was passed to confiscate organized crime assets, the constitution was amended to include the extradition For the first time in history, the Military Police of Public Order was established, the National Police was purged, orders were issued that requests for extradition submitted to the Supreme Court.
Honduras extradited 24 people who have been charged and filed by the US, 15 immediately surrendered to negotiate with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and five have been taken prisoner, ”he said.
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data 3.7% According to the government, the drug is currently going to the US via Honduras, where the figure was previously around 80%. 23 the armed forces have had AA dead in the fight against drug trafficking. |
He also noted that drug traffickers have found a “magic key” with US authorities.
The Cachiros they discovered a solution that they believed would allow them to retaliate, reduce their sentences and ultimately lead to the collapse of alliances and institutions that prevented the drug traffickers from taking control of Honduras. “
And he added, “The magic key is the false testimonials to make arrangements in the US. The Cachiros have lied repeatedly in the most obvious way, they have no evidence whatsoever to back up their lies.
Fredy Diaz, Minister of Defence. |
“If it Cachiros they get a reduced sentence, even if they lied, it means that the magic key is working, that they can actually perform magic, in this case black magic, ”he complained.
Investigated
Luis Suazo, ambassador of Honduras en Washingtonsaid the Southern District prosecutors under investigation for not doing their job properly are the same ones who accuse President Juan Orlando Hernández of crimes related to drug trafficking.
“Until yesterday, the word of the prosecutors was a sacred word, but today they are being investigated because they are not doing their job as they should,” he said.