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Hugo Maldonado calls for ATIC and DLCN purge over alleged organized-crime links

From Proceso Digital · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Hugo Maldonado called for an urgent review and purge of Honduras’ ATIC and DLCN agencies.
  • His demand followed the release of videos containing statements by Derek McNeil, who was murdered in Roatán.

Hugo Maldonado, president of Honduras’ Committee for the Defense of Human Rights, called for an urgent purge of the Technical Agency for Criminal Investigation and the Directorate for the Fight Against Drug Trafficking.

Maldonado made the request after videos circulated containing statements by Derek McNeil, who was killed in Roatán. The statements raised allegations of links between organized crime and the two Honduran agencies.

The report identifies the agencies by their Spanish acronyms, ATIC and DLCN, but the supplied account does not provide further details about the alleged connections or the proposed purge.

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Originally published by Proceso Digital in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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