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Security & Strategic Review October 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)
HONDURAS: Homicide rate now ‘running at 20 a day’
Homicide has increased sharply in Honduras in the first half of this year. Ramón Custodio, the human rights commissioner (a post akin to that of public ombudsman), has dramatised this rise by saying that the number of murders in January-June (3,602) is equivalent to an average of 600 a month or one every 72 minutes. His unveiling of figures for the past 10-and-a-half years appears designed to put pressure on the new security minister, Pompeyo Bonilla, who was appointed after President Porfirio Lobo eased out his predecessor, Oscar Álvarez, in early September.
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