Originally published at The Crux
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SÃO PAULO, Brazil – The Honduran Church has lamented the security crisis the Central American nation has faced this year, with at least 60 people killed since January.
On May 21, 20 rural workers were killed before they began their daily activities at an oil palm plantation. The crime occurred in the community of Rigores in the municipality of Trujillo.
Only a few hours later, five police officers were kidnapped and killed in the city of Omoa, in northern Honduras near the Guatemalan border, while attempting to capture drug traffickers. Their bodies were dismembered and burned.
On May 25, four people were killed and another was wounded in La Lima, in northern Honduras.
According to Jesuit Father Gregorio Vasquez, who coordinates the National Apostolic Council in Honduras, such massacres “cannot be analyzed without taking into consideration the wave of violence caused both by common and organized crime.”
“Honduras has been facing a rather complex situation. Those deaths touch on very sensitive issues for Hondurans – drug trafficking, gangs, and historic land disputes,” he told Crux Now.
Vasquez, who represents the Society of Jesus’s superior provincial, said that drug cartels have controlled Honduras for a long time, and that corrupt
