Vice Admiral José Jorge Fortín Aguilar, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Honduran Armed Forces, is committed to focusing his country’s Armed Forces on teamwork, as one of the institutional branches resolute to combating criminal organizations and helping citizens in emergencies.
Human rights and international humanitarian law are a priority for the Honduran Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA). Secretary of National Defense José Manuel Zelaya Rosales believes that the professionalization of the Honduran Armed Forces goes hand in hand with the respect for and protection of human rights and the full confidence of citizens.
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The bodies of 50 dead migrants were on Monday discovered inside a tractor trailer in San Antonio, Texas, city officials said, in one of the most deadly recent incidents of human smuggling along the US-Mexico border.
A San Antonio Fire Department official said they found “stacks of bodies” and no signs of water in the truck, which was found next to railroad tracks in a remote area on the city’s southern outskirts.
Sixteen other people found inside the trailer were transported to hospitals for heat stroke and exhaustion, including four minors, but no children were among the dead, the department said.
“The patients