Tgeucigalpa, Honduras.
The Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández called on the international community to condemn and put limits on the maras and gangs, As one of the main perpetrators of human rights violations worldwide, during his participation in the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, which takes place in the city of Tokyo, Japan, on March 7-12.
“These subversive groups have taken away thousands of lives, weakened our social fabric and are a permanent threat to all of humanity,” the president recalled during his teleconference speech.
He referred that just as criminals have changed “our legal mechanisms, institutions, governments and international organizations, must be updated to face this new reality.”
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“To defeat our common enemies we must recognize them for what they are. Maras and gangs, like In Qaeda, ISIS and others are no longer atypical subjects of international law, these are terrorist groups that have to be tried and condemned by the entire international community, “he said.
He stressed that organized crime groups have weapons of war, more advanced technology than the states themselves, international illicit financing systems, sophisticated cybercrime equipment, hidden intercontinental networks dedicated to extortion, human trafficking. and a huge variety of new crimes.
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“In 2011 sadly we were the most violent country on the face of the earth due to the presence of organized crime in our country, mainly drug trafficking, gangs and gangs, however, today we have reduced by almost 60% the rate of homicides, “Hernandez said.
He also indicated that cocaine traffic through Honduras to North America fell from 87% to just 3%.
Because of the constant mutation of these criminal groups and the advanced technology they possess, these non-state actors have become crime companies, illicit multinational organizations dedicated solely to profiting from the aftermath of terrible acts of brutality.
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“In our case we make decisions that no one wanted to make before because it was risking their lives, from a constitutional reform to allow the extradition of Honduran criminals related to drug trafficking, organized crime and terrorism, through a police purge that it was in effect a cleansing of the institution, dismissing almost 50% of all its members and most of its generals because they were in the service of the criminal world, ”the ruler recalled.
“We reaffirm the crucial role of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), with whom we have recently signed a strategic partnership and agreed to a presence in the country, as well as to support states in their actions. to implement our obligations in crime prevention and criminal justice, ”he said.