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Weekly Report - 20 June 2006
HONDURAS-US: Visa grants suspended over people trafficking
A common way to attract US assistance is to detect the existence of something the US considers a threat, play it up, then declare that local resources are insufficient to solve it. In early June the Honduran authorities appeared to be setting out on that path, revealing the existence of a corrupt network which aided people traffickers by selling them Honduran identity documents. If this was a ploy, it backfired: on 16 June the US embassy announced that it was suspending the issuance of visas to Hondurans until such time as adequate security measures could be taken.
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