A UN mission will travel to Honduras in April to work on the creation of the Commission Against Corruption and Impunity (CICIH), requested by President Xiomara Castro when she took office in January, the foreign minister said Friday.
“We hope that an expert mission will soon be established, possibly in the first half of April, so that we can begin to exchange the criteria for the establishment of CICIH. This shows us the willingness of the United Nations to support us in this effort,” said Foreign Minister Enrique Reina.
In an interview with local digital media outlet News 24/7, the foreign minister said they received an official communication from the United Nations (UN), appointing the deputy secretary general of that entity, Miroslav Jenča, as the liaison for the issue.
This working group shall “elect the members [of CICIH], who are persons of high international level (...) who can follow up the issues of the fight against corruption, in support of investigations and present possible specific cases”.
Last February, the foreign minister announced that Castro asked the UN to create a commission that would contribute “to the fight against the evils and vices left by the past government” by Juan Orlando Hernández (2014-2022) and “that they have plunged the people of Honduras into misery, poverty and social inequality.”
The former president is in custody and in the process of extradition to the United States, which accuses him of conspiring to transport 500 tons of cocaine to his territory from the positions of power he held, even when he was president of Congress between 2010 and 2014.
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