The creation of the CICIH is a promise of President Xiomara Castro, in a country where corruption is one of the main problems.
Honduras agreed with the UN to extend the deadline for six months to create an anti-corruption mission in the Central American country due to the lack of agreement between the two sides due to the lack of legal reforms, the Honduran government announced Friday.
This is the second time that the so-called “memorandum of understanding” has been extended for six months for the creation of the International Commission against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (CICIH).
This agreement, signed on December 15, 2022, is a UN mechanism similar to that which worked in Guatemala between 2006 and 2019 to fight corruption.
“The Memorandum runs until December 15, 2024,” Foreign Minister Enrique Reina announced at a press conference.
“Here the one who has many issues for the passage of laws (against corruption) is the opposition,” he added.
The creation of the CICIH is a promise of President Xiomara Castro, in a country where corruption is one of the main problems.
Queen acknowledged that the UN requires Honduras to pass laws in Congress to facilitate the opening of trials against corruption suspects.
However, deputies have not passed these laws, which has made it difficult to move forward in negotiations with the United Nations.
Many of these legislators are the same ones who voted to abolish a commission of the Organization of American States (OAS) that operated between 2016 and 2020 in the government of Juan Orlando Hernández, imprisoned for drug trafficking in New York.
With the support of this OAS commission, the prosecutor’s office accused more than half a hundred deputies and officials of diverting funds from the State to their personal accounts, although the trials were suspended for possible political influences.
This article has been translated after first appearing in Diario El Mundo