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Security & Strategic Review November 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)
HONDURAS: Lobo swipes at crime, finds police among the criminals
It took two high-profile murders to spur President Porfirio Lobo into launching a new ‘offensive’ against violent crime. Codenamed Operación Relámpago (‘Operation Lightning’), it involved deploying 2,000 soldiers alongside some 14,000 police officers in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula. This came only weeks after Ramón Custodio, human rights commissioner (a post akin to that of public ombudsman), had reported that there had been 3,602 homicides in the first half of 2011, an average of 20 a day, up from 18 in February-December 2010 (Lobo’s first 11 months in office). It also coincided with a spate of revelations about corruption and negligence in the national police.
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