Beginning on Tuesday, Honduran government will suspend certain constitutional rights in the roughest neighborhoods in two cities for a period of 30 days to crush criminal gangs terrorizing citizens with extortion rackets, Reuters reports. “The partial state of exception will enter into force on Tuesday, December 6 at 6pm for thirty days, to promote the gradual activity of economic development, investment, commerce and in public spaces,” the government said in a statement.
Without making any judgments on whether or not the quasi-martial law declaration is definitely the correct course of action or if it’ll be executed competently without collateral damage to innocent civilians caught up in what’ll be an ugly fight between cops and the gangbangers, we can at least say they’re trying to address a clear and present danger to national security and that it’s limited in time and scope. It’s not to reinstall a failed ex-dictator because some libs at Twitter didn’t think a questionable story about his opponent’s son should be propagated on their platform two.