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Weekly Report - 02 February 2012 (WR-12-05)
HONDURAS: Lobo makes move to purge police
The pressure on the administration of President Porfirio Lobo to combat police corruption is mounting. The international media is no longer presenting violence in Honduras as simply a natural result of turf wars between drug trafficking organisations (DTOs), with recent reports highlighting the chilling extent of police complicity with organised crime. The president of congress, Juan Orlando Hernández, who has his eyes set on running to succeed Lobo next year, has taken the initiative. He pushed through a quick-fire reform of the constitution to permit extradition, and then won approval for a law empowering an independent body to come up with a sweeping reform of the police.
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