2023-06-25 18:54:53
On Tuesday, the death of 46 prisoners at the hands of gang members from the “18th neighborhood” was also recorded.
Courtesy | The massacre forced the Castro government to take new security measures
The wave of violence registered in Honduras claimed the lives of 11 people on Saturday night who were attacked with firearms in a municipality in the north of the Central American country, forcing the government to impose urgent security measures in an effort to to contain those acts.
Authorities reported on Sunday that the armed men broke into a pool hall in the municipality of Choloma, in the northern department of Cortés, and shot customers at point-blank range, following which they fled. At least 10 men and one woman were killed in the attack, it was said.
National Police spokesman Edgardo Barahona confirmed the attack to The Associated Press, without elaborating. The Security Minister, Gustavo Sánchez, had planned to offer a press conference to discuss the event.
“SPS (San Pedro Sula) and Choloma: I have taken measures to give them security in the face of the brutal and ruthless terrorist attack to which they are subjected by hired thugs trained and directed by the drug kingpins who operate with impunity in the drug corridor” President Xiomara Castro announced on her Twitter account.
This attack is added to the massacre of three people that occurred Thursday night in a bakery in San Pedro Sula. Among the victims was Ericka Julissa Bandy García, wife of an alleged associate of former President Juan Orlando Hernández, imprisoned in the United States awaiting trial for three crimes related to drug trafficking.
On Tuesday, the death of 46 detainees at the hands of gang members from the “18th neighborhood” was also recorded in the National Women’s Penitentiary for Social Adaptation, located in the Támara Valley, some 25 kilometers north of Tegucigalpa.
The massacre forced the Castro government to take new security measures to take control of the prisons and prevent the collusion of authorities to bring weapons and drugs into those places.
“Multiple operations, raids, captures and checkpoints are started 24 hours a day. As of this day (Sunday) a special curfew for Choloma”, which will start from 09:00 local time until 16:00, Castro said. In San Pedro Sula, a curfew will be in effect from July 4, he added.
Honduras is considered one of the most violent countries in the world. 2022 closed with a homicide rate of 35 per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the latest report from the Secretary of Security and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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