Eviction

About 15 families in Villa Nueva, a Tegucigalpa neighborhood, were evicted by gang members on September 8, with police arriving only to oversee the forced displacement; a criminologist says the incident reflects a severe deterioration in public security, with homicides through early September running nearly level with last year.

Residents of the Paseo Real del Carmen neighborhood in San Pedro Sula say they have endured two weeks of pressure and harassment from developers seeking to evict them for residential construction projects, and are calling on authorities to intervene.

About 86 farming families in El Tulito, Choluteca, were evicted under Honduras's new Agro-Industry Protection Law at the request of sugar companies, despite legal challenges and six prior failed eviction attempts before the law took effect.