Talk:Crime in Honduras

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

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Intentional homicide in Honduras

According to the homicide figures in Table 8.1, on page 93 of the 2011 Global Study on Homicide, published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Honduras has the highest rate of intentional homicide in the world, with 6,239 intentional homicides, or 82.1 per 100,000 of population in 2010. This is significantly higher than the rate in El Salvador, which at 66.0 per 100,000 in 2010, has the second highest rate of intentional homicide in the world. See https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/Homicide/Globa_study_on_homicide_2011_web.pdf 124.187.117.80 (talk) 08:28, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

The information in this article is so scanty, it should probably just be deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.169.72.186 (talk) 02:39, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Also according to the "2011 Global Study on Homicide," the murder rate was trending downwards in Honduras until 2005. The murder rate assumed the upward trend in 2005-2006, when Manuel Zelaya took office, and that trend line continued through Zelaya's ouster in 2009. The leads one to the conclusion that the increase in murder did not suddenly start when Zelaya was ousted, as suggested in the first line of article. Catrachos (talk) 20:41, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

The 2011 figures are out of date. The 2012 UNODC data is available, and this section has been updated to reflect this, but a citation to the 2012 UNODC data (which can be found on the List of countries by intentional homicide rate page) needs to be added. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Phruizler (talk • contribs) 09:33, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

U.S Peace Corps

I wasn't sure if the part about the withdrawal of the U.S. Peace Corps in Honduras needed its own section or not. There wasn't another section that seemed appropriate for this topic. It's also a fairly new development so anyone with other relevant or new information please feel free to move this information to another section or delete this section. I think this information does need to be in this article.--MrNiceGuy1113 (talk) 16:31, 30 April 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by MrNiceGuy1113 (talk • contribs) 16:16, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Latin American Politics

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 18 January 2023 and 9 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Grumpydino, LBraverman30, 745234R5, Latinamericanguy (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Freyand, Flowerpancakes, Monkeypenguin29, Junior390, Zacotto4, Lobham, CheetahMonkey, Kanye Wapol.

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Victims of Violence and Updated Crime Statistics

I am part of a college class working to improve wikipedia articles covering subjects related to Latin America. In the section about murder, I removed outdated statistics and provided updated numbers from as recently as 2022. I also created a new section focusing on victims of violence, to which I added new material about youth homicides, femicides, and assassination of public figures, and I also moved some other existing parts of the article into this section as well to improve the organizational flow. I also added a discussion about the issue of extortion by criminal organizations against the general population, which is a tactic used to prevent witnesses and victims of crimes from cooperating with authorities. I also improved sourcing by adding citations to scholarly articles and more recent current events.

In the section about the Mano Dura laws, I removed parts of a discussion about gang tattoos that were both not relevant to crime policy and not supported by citations. In this section, I also added a brief paragraph covering Honduras’ recent declaration of emergency due to crime, which has allowed empowered security forces to be much more vigorous in arresting, detaining, and prosecuting criminal suspects.

Apart from these new additions, I rephrased a lot of the article’s existing content to improve the clarity and flow of writing. I also deleted a very short section on leaded gasoline that was only about three sentences long and seemed insignificant and out of context. 745234R5 (talk) 16:27, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

Expansion of "Illegal Drug Trade" and "Gangs"

I am also part of a college class working to improve certain articles related to Latin America. I primarily focused on the sections on the Illegal Drug Trade and Gangs. In the illegal drug trade section, I added two sub-sections, "Transnational organized crime" and "Impact of corruption." In the "transnational organized crime" subsection, I mostly included context on the role of Mexican and other foreign cartels, who have significant impact on the illegal drug trade that flows into the United States. In the subsection "Impact of corruption," I included new-related material that demonstrated why the drug trade prospers in Honduras, prominently due to high-level corruption. I also added existing coverage of the role of Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, given his major role in Honduras.

In the section on "Gangs," I added updated information on how gang prevalence has increased in Honduras, which many scholars attribute to United States deportation policy. I also included updated information on other gangs who have gained prominence, as well as statistics on the impact of gang violence.

Finally, I added a small paragraph under "Crime Prevention" that details how Latin American countries have worked with one another, including through the OAS, to decrease crime across the region. LBraverman30 (talk) 19:50, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Money Laundering, Crime Prevention, Banco Continental

I am also part of a college class working to improve articles related to politics in Latin America. Each member of our group made equally important contributions to the article, and my main contributions included the section on money laundering and part of the section on crime prevention. Money laundering is an important topic because it is often linked to various other criminal activities, such as drug trafficking, corruption, and organized crime. Readers can gain a better understanding of the complexity and interconnectedness of different types of crime in Honduras. In my section on crime prevention, I discuss the challenges to crime prevention in Honduras, including societal-level factors such as the transnational drug trade and rising unemployment rates, as well as political and institutional challenges such as the absence of a coherent and transparent system of governance and inadequate law enforcement and justice institutions. The root causes of crime in Honduras are multifaceted, including societal, political, and institutional factors, which were scattered but are now brought together under one section. I was also involved in the sections on corruption and Banco Continental, which were initially not well written and not well sourced, as well as the structuring and rewording of the article. I improved the clarity in the article by rephrasing a lot of its existing content as well as revising newly written material. Notably, the headings and subheadings are now more organized. Grumpydino (talk) 02:17, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Bolstering & Reinforcing of Intro, Murder, Impact of Corruption, Gangs, Regional Variations, Effects of Crime on Migration, and Crime Prevention

I too am a member of the college class working with the Wikipedia course that was responsible for up-taking and improving this informative article on crime in Honduras. As you will notice upon inspection of recent edits, my group and I have intentionally lengthened and bolstered the information provided by this article over the course of the past month. Through extensive research on the state of Honduras’ political, social, and economic problems, we gathered and prioritized the leading causes and types of crime that occur in the nation today. Our findings indicated that corruption, murder, organized crime (gangs and cartels), and exploitation lead the pack in terms of frequency and severity in Honduran society today.

Personally, my contributions to this article manifested themselves in the form of reinforcements to the following sections: introductory, murder, impact of corruption, gangs, regional variations, effects of crime on migration, and crime prevention.

In the introductory section I added a sentence listing the top types of actual crime that are most detrimental to government-public relations in Honduras today. Drug smuggling, extortion, coercion, and corruption all prevent members of the public from building and cultivating trustworthy relationships with law enforcement and government authorities. Additionally, I bolstered the statistics in the murder section by consulting and citing more recent scholarly sources and observing current events that were not previously used. I also added the paragraphs on youth homicides and the targeting of journalists in the Victims of Violence sub-section. In the impact of corruption section, I added a paragraph detailing how the judicial branch introduced new legal code that blatantly reduced the punishment for political officials convicted of corruption and cited the respective scholarly source. Under the gangs section, I added information related to the recruitment and indoctrination of male youths who are particularly vulnerable to kickstarting a life of crime at a young age in Honduras, as well as provided intel on the GREAT program which is backed by the United States. I added statistics to the regional variations section and provided some useful numbers on how consolidated and targeted violent crime can be in urban Honduran neighborhoods and cited these numbers. Under the effects of crime on migration section I added the paragraph detailing how crime in Honduras disproportionately affects members of the LGBTQ+ community as well as journalists and those who suffer from disabilities. This information was updated and the source citing improved. Finally, I added a paragraph in the crime prevention section about how historically, Latin American countries have tried to implement iron fist legislation to prevent crime and have formed special units such as the Fuerza Nacional Anti Maras y Pandillas unit. I noted and cited the fact that because these units often recruit from government bodies such as the military and police, these units tend to get infiltrated by corrupt agents which further contributes to the cycle of distrust and corruption that is all too common in Latin America. Latinamericanguy (talk) 02:44, 8 May 2023 (UTC)