Honduras transferred 1,628 prisoners classified as highly dangerous to two maximum security prisons. Among the inmates transferred there are 802 members of the Barrio 18 gang who were mobilized to the La Tolva detention center in Morocelí, in the eastern part of the country. In the same operation, 826 gang members of the Mara Salvatrucha were mobilized
The Honduran authorities transferred this Tuesday more than 1,628 highly dangerous prisoners, members of maras and gangs, to two “maximum security” prisons in the east and west of the country, within the framework of the “Faith and Hope” operation launched by the government after the killing of 46 women on June 20. An image on view in El Salvador not long ago by the Bukele government. The authorities previously destroyed a large number of weapons, the question is how these weapons got to the prisons. At least 1,105 firearms of various calibers, between regular and artisanal, and 23,925 projectiles, have been seized during Operation Faith and Hope in the 25 prisons of the Honduran prison system. What has been found inside the prisons so far “is barely 10 percent,” according to the head of the PMOP, Ramiro Muñoz, who stressed this Monday, July 11, that while he is in charge of the Military Police, the private liberty “will no longer control the prisons.
In statements to the RFI antenna, Juan Almendarez, director of the Center for the Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims, has underlined the importance of corruption in law enforcement in this matter. “The first question that one asks is how weapons enter the prison. That is police and military corruption because today there are modern weapons detention systems and the weapons that entered there are the R15, which is very large and very visible. They said that they entered the vagina of women but that cannot be. It is false, there are ultramodern cameras that detect any situation”.
Almendarez also explains that the mixture of highly dangerous prisoners such as those from the gangs with others of little or no danger contributes to creating this hostile environment in prisons.
The operation was carried out within the framework of a series of measures imposed by the government of Xiomara Castro to toughen the security of the country. Among other actions, the construction of a maximum security prison is planned in the Islas del Cisne.
