Tegucigalpa, June 26 (Prensa Latina) Honduran Congressman Rasel Tomé expressed his support for President Xiomara Castro in her efforts to keep people safe following recent crimes in the country.
In statements to Channel 8 television, the vice president of the National Congress referred to the president’s announcement that he would submit a bill to the legislature in the coming days to designate all members of the maras (gangs) operating here as terrorists.
“This is a situation that needs to be analyzed in the National Congress. We want to defend the Honduran people, workers and sectors investing in the country,” he said.
In this sense, he added that the security minister, who will be responsible for presenting the bill to Parliament, will have to explain what the elements of the security policy are and what the proposal for the new offense should look like.
He stressed that the sectors involved in drug trafficking pose a kind of challenge to the state as they do not want to submit to the rules of the rule of law in Honduras, the judiciary, the executive and the legislature.
On the other hand, he pointed out the importance of managing the country’s different prisons in order to implement security policies and stop violent crimes recorded in different prisons.
With that in mind, he called for an effective investigation into all those involved in the massacre of around 46 people in a women’s prison last week.
“Those who have committed these criminal acts must be punished,” Tomé said, calling the acts heinous.
As part of the “Crime and State of Emergency Solution” security plan being developed here, the Honduran President this Sunday ordered a new police operation to fight organized crime called “Candado Valle de Sula.”
The order is being carried out with the aim of finding the intellectual perpetrators of a new murder that killed at least 11 people last Saturday in the commune of Choloma, in the department of Cortés in the north of the country.
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