Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Hundreds of people custody Soldiers were stationed in the capital of Honduras this Monday to prevent attacks and others Crimes That increase Christmas seasonA military spokesman said.
AFP journalists confirmed that groups in vehicles and on foot were stationed in markets, commercial areas, neighborhoods and neighborhoods in the city of about one and a half million people.
Captain Jose Coello, spokesman for the Military Public Order Police (PMOP), told AFP that “we are in support of Operation Safe Christmas” which will last until the new year.
He pointed out that the deployment is in addition to the work they have been doing since June, when President Xiomara Castro ordered the PMOP to secure 24 penal centers after the deaths of 46 female gang members. In prison.
The deployment is taking place on December 6, 2022, the anniversary of the declaration of a “state of emergency” to cover transporters, traders and extortionist gangs.
The year-long state of emergency is similar to the one ordered by Nayeb Bukele’s government in El Salvador in March 2022, although with fewer measures and decisions than in the neighboring country.
Honduras has one of the world’s highest homicide rates since it closed last year with 38 per 100,000 citizens, nearly five times the global average, according to the UN.
