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Weekly Report - 15 September 2011 (WR-11-37)

HONDURAS: Breaking dawn

Daybreak is a dangerous time in Tegucigalpa, it seems. In a faint echo of the early morning removal of the former president Manuel Zelaya in June 2009, President Porfirio Lobo suddenly reshuffled his cabinet, apparently at 6am on the morning of 10 September, removing his security and foreign ministers, both of his ruling Partido Nacional (PN). Lobo later hinted obliquely that his security minister had gone behind his back in his efforts to crack down on police force corruption. The minister alleged dirty tricks against him. Congress, dominated by the PN, later watered down a controversial new tax package meant to fund national security. The congress president, and Lobo’s rumoured preferred successor, also indicated that a tough police reform proposal designed by the axed security minister would be reviewed.

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