The police are again making preparations in the last week of the year for a number of serious incidents expected to happen at the turn of the New Year. Officers have not developed any tips or intelligence to indicate something will definitely happen in a specific location, emphasized Corry van Breda, who runs national violence approaches at the police. Nearly …
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there, tearing a page from neighboring El Salvador’s unforgiving approach to murder, robbery, rape and extortion. “A new prison is quite useless if you don’t first regain control of the others you already have,” said Tiziano Breda, a Latin …
Officials hope the isolated facility will cut gang members off from criminal networks on the mainland. “A new prison is quite useless if you don’t first regain control of the others you already have,” said Tiziano Breda, a Latin America expert at Italy’s Istituto Affari Internazionali. “It’s the farthest away they can possibly be, so these gang leaders feel the …
