A large number of police officers in the main cities in Honduras were seen on Friday, the day after President Ziumara Castro announced the state of emergency to deal with the expansion of the activities of criminal groups in the country.
Castro announced the state of emergency in this country, which suffers from violence due to gangs and drug trafficking.
A large number of special forces and police deployed on Friday in the streets of the capital, Tigusagalba, according to the photographer of Agence France -Presse. Police chief Gustavo Sanchez said at least 20,000 policeman will be mobilized as part of these procedures.
He added that about 120 neighborhoods or area in the capital and the second city in the country, San Pedro Sola, were determined to impose the procedures of this “exceptional situation.
” The declaration of the state of emergency comes days after hundreds of bus drivers demonstrated in the capital to demand measures to prevent extortion practiced by criminal gangs.
Castro, the first woman who was elected head of the country in January, said Thursday that she would announce “the war on extortion, as we declared war on corruption, impunity and drug smuggling. ”
Honduras is a small country located in the “Triangle of Death” in Central America.
It is one of the countries in which the largest rate of crimes in the world is recorded by gangs. He witnessed several coups, armed rebellions and conflicts with his neighbor El Salvador and Guatemala..
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