Congress Seeks to Toughen Laws Against Crime and Gangs

Originally reported October 14, 2026 by Congreso Nacional

Congress expects to vote soon on security reforms including measures to deny substitute sentences to gang members, regulate gang tattoos, and extend detention-hearing deadlines to 48 hours, pending a Supreme Court legal opinion due next week.

An auto-translated English version isn’t available for Congreso Nacional, so this opens the original in Spanish. Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.

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