However, President Castro is not the first Honduran president to impose such decree. President Castro’s application of a state of emergency has drawn comparison to neighboring President Bukele’s state of exception. Source: DIAPAMPCO, Facebook, 16 January 2023. Civil society organizations, who were supportive of Castro’s candidacy, are critiquing the state of emergency as being discriminatory and stigmatizing underfunded communities.Īgents of the Honduras Dirección Policial Anti Maras y Pandillas Contra El Crímen Organizado [Police anti maras and gangs directorate against organized crime} (DIPAMPCO) Arrest a Member of MS-13 During the Estado de Excepción. The Honduran government justifies the state of exception as part of its Comprehensive Plan for the Treatment of Extortion and Related Crimes ( Plan Integral para el Tratamiento de la Extorsión y Delitos Conexos ), which also includes the Scorpion Plan ( Plan Escorpión ) aimed at controlling the gangs. The suspended constitutional guarantees allow police to search and arrest people without an arrest warrant. On 6 January, the state of exception was extended for an additional 45 days in Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, as well as to 73 additional municipalities until 20 February 2023. The state of exception suspends some constitutional guarantees in 162 sectors within the municipalities of the Central District (Tegucigalpa) and San Pedro Sula. On 24 November 2022, President Xiomara Castro declared a state of emergency in security issues and announced that an Estado de excepción (state of exception) would be imposed from 6 December 2022 to 6 January 2023 with executive order number 29-2022.
Security at the Expense of Constitutional Guarantees: The Case of Honduras
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