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Honduras to suspend some constitutional rights to fight gang violence

FILE PHOTO: Members of Honduras' military police prepare to be deployed at the border, after President Xiomara Castro declared a national security emergency, implementing a new plan to combat a rising number of cases of extortion by violent criminal groups operating across the country, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras November 27, 2022. REUTERS/Fredy Rodriguez

The government of Honduras announced on Saturday that it will suspend some constitutional rights in areas of two main cities controlled by criminal groups.

The rights would be suspended under a national security emergency that would last for 30 days and be implemented on Tuesday in some of the poorest areas of the capital, Tegucigalpa, and the northern city of San Pedro Sula.

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