Landmark US Drug Trial Leaves Bloody Trail in Honduras

By artappraiser on Sat, 12/21/2019 - 5:59pm |

Analysis by Parker Asmann @ InsightCrime.org, Dec. 19

The director of a maximum-security prison in Honduras was brazenly murdered in broad daylight, in what was just the latest in a string of killings following the conviction for drug trafficking of Tony Hernández, the president’s brother, in the United States [....]

Following Armas’ murder and the slaying of five other inmates in the La Tolva maximum security prison, Ebal Díaz, secretary of state to the presidency, announced a state of emergency in the prison system on December 17. All prison employees were suspended and control of the prisons was temporarily transferred to the armed forces, according to La Prensa [....]

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