According to an announcement by the Honduran government, the president of the left in the country, is going to New York together with her personal secretary and her son Hector Zelaya “to finalize the arrival of the International Commission against Corruption and Impunity (CICIH).
The president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, left yesterday Sunday for the UN, where she wants to seal the installation in the country of an international commission that will contribute to the fight against corruption, similar to the one that had acted in Guatemala.
The president of the Honduran left is traveling to New York with her personal secretary and son Hector Zelaya “to finalize the arrival of the International Commission against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (CICIH)”, according to a press release from her government.
CICIH will be similar to a United Nations-backed entity that began operating in Guatemala in 2008, with judicial members and investigators from abroad.
The UN had agreed to the creation of that commission, CICIG, because organized crime had great influence over key Guatemalan institutions, particularly the prosecution and the police.
CICIG was kicked out of Guatemala in 2019 by the president at the time, Jimmy Morales, who refused to renew its mandate, a few months after declaring the Colombian judge who headed it persona non grata.
Xiomara Castro, the wife of former president Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a bloodless military coup in 2009, made the fight against corruption, backed by the UN, the centerpiece of her election campaign that brought her to power in January.
In November 2021, when she was now president-elect, she began negotiations for the creation of this commission with the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres.
CICIH has a precedent: the Support Mission Against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH), which was created by the Organization of American States (OAS) for four years and helped bring dozens of parliamentarians, public officials and businessmen to justice.
But former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández refused to renew the OAS agreement and the mission ceased operations in January 2020.
Former president Hernandez, 55, was extradited to the US in April on charges of trafficking 500 tonnes of cocaine in collaboration with Colombian and Mexican cartels between 2004 and 2022.
According to US prosecutors, Mr Hernandez, who has pleaded not guilty, turned Honduras into a “narco-state”, implicating at least in part the military and police in trafficking drugs to the US market.
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