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Weekly Report - 16 January 2014 (WR-14-02)

HONDURAS: Lobo’s parting gift to Hernández – a shootdown law

Deputy Tomás Zambrano of the ruling Partido Nacional (PN) told the daily La Tribuna on 14 January that the outgoing PN-dominated congress, which hands over to 128 newly-elected deputies on 25 January, would sign off on yet another ‘paquetazo’ before it leaves. The economic adjustment package raced through before Christmas has caused uproar. The latest — a security package that among other things includes a new shootdown law giving the incoming PN executive led by Juan Orlando Hernández legal authority to bring down suspected narco planes – threatens to be equally controversial.

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