Although gangs existed in tegucigalpa in the 1980s, the. The republic of honduras is organized according to title i. See juan fogelbach, mara salvatrucha ms and ley anti mara. Maras gang violence and security in central america edited. The first book to look specifically at the central american gang problem by drawing on the perspectives of researchers from. Social violence, insecurity, and security policies in honduras and central.
Branches of the government, the three administrative branches are the legislative, executive and judicial. Rory carroll reports on the rise of the maras youth gangs that form a chain of drugs, extortion and. Mano dura firm hand policies in central america recent. Maras y pandillas en honduras preparadopor insightcrime contratonoaid. The presence and activities of mara salvatrucha ms or. The policy also included the ley anti maras, or anti gang law, which made gang membership itself a crime and allowed the squads to arrest people based on their appearance alone wolf 50. Three young people are murdered every day in honduras. Almost all maras display tattoos on their bodies as a sign of their affiliation to their. The program for the protection of witnesses is composed of six technical evaluation teams that receive applications for protection and are distributed as follows. In honduras, mano dura and the ley antimaras aimed at reducing social violence. Nov 12, 2010 three young people are murdered every day in honduras. Sensational headlines have publicized the drug trafficking, brutal violence, and other organized crime elements associated with central americas mara gangs, but there have been few cleareyed analyses of the history, hierarchies, and future of the mara phenomenon.
The commission has followed the human rights situation in honduras with particularly close attention, and it has observed, through its reports, a series of structural issues in the areas of justice, security, marginalization and discrimination, which have affected for decades the human rights of its people. The legislative branch is the congress of deputies, which is elected by direct vote. The best known maras are mara salvatrucha and their rivals calle 18. This statute was criticized nationally and internationally for violating the countrys constitution, several international treaties, and basic principles of criminal law. Maras activities range from arms trafficking, assault, auto theft, burglaries, drug trafficking, extortion, human trafficking, identity fraud, identity theft, illegal gambling, illegal immigration, kidnapping, money laundering, people smuggling, prostitution, racketeering, robbery and vandalism. Ihre mitglieder sind zumeist lateinamerikanischer herkunft. Roundtable participant due to the extremely sensitive nature of internal gang. Executive power is held by the president or, in the event of their death.
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