Honduras' government replaced the country's police chief after it emerged an imprisoned ex-officer could be linked to the recent murder of a journalist. However, the move will likely do little to combat the rampant corruption within the police force.
Despite mounting criticism of US security efforts in Honduras in the wake of a controversial operation which killed four people, President Porfirio Lobo has asked the US to deepen its role in the fight against drug trafficking in the country.
Reporters Without Borders has said that the biggest threat to press freedom in Honduras is powerful landowner Miguel Facusse Barjum, though the accusations do not stop there -- Facusse has been accused of ties to the drug trade, and of waging a violent campaign against land activists.
Honduras' government has said that the murder of journalist Alfredo Villatoro is a backlash by drug traffickers against the country allowing extradition to the US, though members of the country's press were the target of attacks well before the recent legislation.
A GlobalPost report sheds light on the crisis in Latin America's prisons, highlighting several alarming trends in prisons throughout the region.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) released a report alleging that overcrowding in prisons across the region are contributing to the “systematic violation” of inmates’ human rights.
United States authorities announced the arrest of 28 people involved in a trafficking ring that smuggled cocaine from Honduras into the country, a rare case of a US-based Honduran drug ring with a transnational connection.
A journalist has been kidnapped in Honduras, and an ex-police officer with suspicious ties to the incident has been allowed to walk free, seemingly illustrating both the degree of police corruption in Honduras well as the dangers of being a journalist in the country.
Defense attorneys who represent the region's most powerful drug lords are offered tantilizing compensation packages from their capo clients but the risks inherent in the job are evident from the host of lawyers gunned down in Colombia, Mexico and elsewhere.
The New York Times reports on military bases the US's Southern Command (Southcom) has established in remote parts of Honduras to support anti-drug operations, in an example of the US military's increased commitment to the region.
