Honduras Launches Military Operations on the Streets

February 15, 2013

On one of the main access roads of Tegucigalpa, a military officer with an armored vehicle with a 50 mm canon, forces drivers to stop: it is one of the many check points set up in the Honduran capital and in San Pedro Sula within the so-called “Operation Freedom” against criminal violence.

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For decades, Ecuador was perceived as an exception in a region plagued by drug trafficking, armed violence, and criminal capture of the state. While neighboring countries faced open wars between cartels and state forces, Ecuador seemed to remain on the sidelines of these dynamics. That image began to slowly crack and finally collapsed in January […]

Honduras Launches Military Operations on the Streets

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