Honduran authorities performed simultaneous raids on three prisons, adopting ways paying homage to President Nayib Bukele’s actions in neighboring El Salvador.

Safety Secretary Gustavo Sanchez denied copying one other nation’s coverage however acknowledged criticism from each side.

The operations, generally known as Operation Religion and Hope, concerned the Honduran Armed Forces and the Army Police of Public Order (PMOP) taking management of the penal facilities.

The raids adopted a gang dispute that resulted in 46 deaths on the Nationwide Feminine Penitentiary for Social Adaptation (PNFAS) in Támara.

(Inauguration of El Salvador’s mega jail a couple of months in the past)

Inmates affiliated with the Barrio 18 gang smuggled firearms, machetes, and flammable liquid into the power.

They overpowered guards, attacked Mara Salvatrucha members with gunfire and machetes, locked them in a cell, doused them with gasoline, and set them on hearth.

President Xiomara Castro condemned the occasion as a “monstrous homicide of ladies” and positioned all prisons underneath the management of PMOP.

Within the latest operations, PMOP items, together with helicopter insertion groups, containment, and requisition forces, found firearms, explosives, prohibited substances, and different prohibited gadgets in prisons in Morocelí, El Paraíso (La Tolva), Támara, and PNFAS.

Honduran Secretary of Protection José Manuel Zelaya Rosales highlighted the numerous discoveries and emphasised the federal government’s goal to remodel the prisons into establishments that now not facilitate felony actions.

Honduras faces vital challenges resulting from excessive ranges of gang violence and felony exercise, making it one of the vital harmful international locations globally.

In response to a pool corridor capturing that left 13 individuals lifeless in Choloma, President Castro applied curfews in Choloma and San Pedro Sula, the second-largest metropolis within the nation.

These measures are a part of Operation Sula Valley Lockdown and goal to deal with safety issues associated to organized crime.

The federal government’s actions have obtained solidarity assist from the Council of Ministers of Overseas Affairs and Overseas Commerce of the Central American Integration System (SICA).

The worldwide group hopes that joint operations by regulation enforcement companies will dismantle organized crime and produce the accountable people to justice.