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Honduras suspends rights to fight gangs
Issued on: 07/12/2022 - 03:26
Modified: 07/12/2022 - 03:24
1 min
Tegucigalpa (AFP) – Honduran police on Tuesday moved en masse into poor urban areas to tackle criminal gangs "head on" after a decree by President Xiomara Castro to temporarily suspend certain rights.
The 30-day lifting of constitutional guarantees that began Tuesday allows police to make arrests without warrants in 89 districts of Tegucigalpa, the capital, and 73 districts of San Pedro Sula, the industrial capital.
President Castro, a leftist, declared last week the lifting of the constitutional rights due to what she called a "national emergency" over gang violence.
"We are going to go head on against organized crime," national police director Gustavo Sanchez told some 600 security agents at a dusty soccer pitch in Aleman, a residential district south of the capital.
The crackdown, he said at a news conference, "is to deal with the criminal structures known as Gang 18 and MS-13," a reference to the two largest transnational street gangs in Honduras.
More:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221207-honduras-suspends-rights-to-fight-gangs