TEGUCIGALPA.
“No one linked to drug trafficking or intimidated by narcos would ever fight to establish extradition,” the Honduran president said yesterday Juan Orlando Hernández in the National Congress after convening a meeting at the National Defense and Security Council.
Hernandez gave a report on the progress of security and said that he delivered a proposal for the creation of the anti-tidal circuit and that in the coming days will work with the Judiciary as well as the Ministry Audience.
“There is a team of experts who have recommended that we migrate from the Anti-Extortion jurisdiction circuit to a circuit that includes other crimes, other illicit activities that could be the new jurisdiction to deal with gangs and gangs and terrorist acts,” he said. .
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Report of the FF AA Titus Livi Moreno, hierarch of the Armed Forces (FF AA), said that for years he has been working to tackle common and organized crime, against drug trafficking and any threat that may harm the Honduran people. The colonel pointed out that people who violate the law will make use of any ploy to demerit the work that has been done, where there are clear statistics, facts and results against drug trafficking. |
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Hernandez recalled that less than 15 years ago drug planes filled the sky Honduras and that the embassy of United States in the country he has stated that the Government of that time was so closely connected with organized crime that cooperation between law enforcement was impossible. “Drug cartels and gangs operated with impunity,” he recalled.
“In 2010 when I took over the presidency of the National Congress“Since the legislature we passed a series of eight security laws that were hated and feared by narcos,” he noted.
Luis Suazo, Ambassador to Washington. |
Among these laws was passed one to confiscate the assets of organized crime, the Constitution was reformed to allow the extradition for the first time in history, the Military Police of Public Order was created, the National Police was purified, the order was given that the requests of extradition be delivered to the Supreme Court of Justice.
“Honduras has extradited 24 people charged and requested by the US, 15 surrendered directly to negotiate with the Drug Control Administration (DEA for the acronym in English) and five have been captured, “he said.
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data 3.7% of drugs to the US currently passes through Honduras, according to the Government, when the figure before was around 80%. 23 dead have had the FF AA in the fight against drug trafficking. |
He also noted that drug traffickers have found a “magic key” with U.S. authorities.
“the Cachiros they discovered a solution that they believed would allow them to take revenge, would lower their sentences and eventually bring about the collapse of alliances and institutions that had prevented the narcos from taking control of Honduras. “
And he added: “The magic key is the false witnesses to make arrangements in the US. The Cachiros in the most obvious way have been lying repeatedly, they have no evidence to support their lies.”
Fredy Diaz, Minister of Defense. |
“If the Cachiros they receive reductions in their sentences even though they have lied it means that the magic key works, that they can actually perform magic, in this case black magic, ”he lamented.
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Luis Suazo, ambassador of Honduras en WashingtonHe said prosecutors in the Southern District of New York investigated for not doing their job well are the same ones who accuse President Juan Orlando Hernandez of drug-related crimes.
“Until yesterday the word of the prosecutors was holy word, but today they are under investigation for not doing their job as they should have done,” he said.