

Lobo Sosa's deployment has been incident free- so far. Zelaya's deployment was marred by military shootings of innocent civilians. Operation Lightning, by comparison, has only deployed 3000 soldiers, in an operation intended to help stop crime. It proposed to employ the 30,000 - 60, 000 private security guards as a paramilitary force deployed to put a stop to crime, along with the military deployment of 10,000 soldiers to the streets. In August 2006 Zelaya initiated Operation Thunder (Operación Trueno) as his solution to the growing organized crime problem. Is Porfirio Lobo Sosa just copying Manuel Zelaya Rosales? So, what's with this name, Operation Lightning (Operación Relampago) anyhow? So far, not sign of anyone returning the confiscated figures. If we have committed errors we'll try to fix them. I call on all the police, and we are talking here about an order, that they let people protest we do not have a reason to be offended we are subject to criticism. The commander of the National Police, José Ricardo Ramirez del Cid, ordered that the Police "not retain the figures", noting that:

This morning, Police officers came by and confiscated all the figures related to police corruption. Another day, around 6 pm as we were finishing up the final touches, someone shot at us from a moving car."
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The figures were almost done we had them outside the house but mysteriously the (figure of) the driver of the patrol car disappeared. The creators of the Transit Police Car report receiving death threats: They want to protest the new law that restricts who can be a passenger on a motorcycle. The owners of an upholstery shop constructed a figure of a man and a woman riding a red motorcycle. "This is the assassin, we have to kill him so that he won't kill more people," said the creator. Still another is a figure of a police officer, in a uniform and orange colored official vest donated by a police officer disgruntled by the corruption, holding up a sign that says "A Bribe or Your License".Īnother figure is an assassin standing before a tree labeled, the "Tree of the Poor". "They have been cruel to the people of Honduras with the increases in the cost of electricity.It's a government that has the people on their knees, and they cannot do anything to get out of poverty." One figure is a Transit Police vehicle with the bodies of Rafael Alejandro Vargas Castellanos and Carlos David Pineda Rodriguez thrown carelessly in the back.Īnother is a tank driven by Porfirio Lobo Sosa and ENEE boss Roberto Martin Lozano with text that calls into question the final thermo-electric generation deal. Here's what Hondurans in Tegucigalpa want to leave behind. It's New Years Eve and a weekend, so the reporters stayed close to home this year (coverage: El Heraldo, El Tiempo, La Tribuna, and La Prensa, and international press coverage in EFE and Univision.). Normally these would be filled with fireworks: rockets, mortars, and firecrackers, but this year there's a complete ban on fireworks, so they'll reportedly be stuffed with paper, grass, and other combustible materials. It is customary at the end of each year for some Hondurans to construct paper maché, wood, and fabric figures of the bad things that happened that year and burn them, to symbolically kill all the bad of the current year and usher in the good of the next year.
