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Caribbean & Central America - July 2017 (ISSN 1741-4458)
HONDURAS: Hernández boasts of improved security
“Honduras has found its way again”, President Juan Orlando Hernández declared on 10 July, announcing that on current projections the homicide rate was set to drop by 10 percentage points by year-end. Ahead of his bid for re-election in November, Hernández took full credit for the improvement. Yet other public officials acknowledge that the reality on the ground remains quite difficult, not least for Honduran women.
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