Weekly Report - 02 August 2012 (WR-12-30)

When Honduran President Porfirio Lobo Sosa campaigned for office he presented himself as a no-nonsense all-action achiever. Now, more than halfway through his mandate, he is more likely to be described as an indecisive, passive underachiever. The criticism would be slightly harsh given the amount of time he has had to devote to reinserting Honduras into the concert of nations after the coup that toppled Manuel Zelaya in 2009, but Lobo has made little progress in addressing some of the country’s most pressing problems, foremost among which is insecurity. One enduring problem  his government has failed to resolve is the violence associated with a land conflict in the northern region of Bajo Aguán.

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