A Deep Dive Into Honduras’ Criminal Dynamics and Its Borders

Honduras is a key territory for cocaine trafficking and a hub for other criminal economies, such as human smuggling and extortion.
Join us next Tuesday, February 16, for a discussion in which  InSight  Crime Co-director Steven Dudley — and investigators Héctor Silva and Victoria Dittmar – delve into Honduras´ cross-border criminal dynamics. Moderated by  Kurt Alan Ver Beek, Co-Founder & President of Association for a More Just Society (ASJ), the event is part of  a series of country-by-country presentations titled “Border Crime: The Northern Triangle and the Tri-Border Area,” in which  InSight  Crime presents the findings of its investigative work completed over the last two years in these border regions.

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In Honduras, drug trafficking reaches the highest levels of government, compromising the country’s borders and spurring on all manner of transnational crime. The incumbent National Party has played a leading role in Honduras’ steady decline into the murky world of narcostates.