Caribbean & Central America - March 2022

Less than three weeks after Honduras’s now former president Juan Orlando Hernández (2014-2022) and his Partido Nacional government left office, replaced by President Xiomara Castro and her leftist Partido Libertad y Refundación, Hernández was arrested in line with a US request for his extradition on drug-trafficking and weapons charges. The first piece in this March 2022 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America looks at hopes that Hernández’s arrest could mark a turning point in a country which has seen a major backsliding in anti-impunity efforts.

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