She was shot while opening the gate of her home in the city of Nacaóme, in the south of the country. The case is added to the recent homicides of the Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, in Colombia; and the prosecutor of Ecuador, Luz Marina Delgado
Karen Almendares
The environmental prosecutor in southern Honduras, Karen Almendares, 39, was shot dead last night by unknown assailants in the city of Nacaóme< /b>, where he lived, local press reported this Saturday.
The crime was perpetrated when Almendares opened the gate of his house, in the El Chagüite neighborhood, when he was returning from a gym in Nacaóme, in the southern department of Valle, on the border with El Salvador.
The National Police, which has not reported the bloody incident, agreed to crime zone, according to the brief information that has emerged.
According to unofficial versions,the murdered prosecutor was the sister of a high-ranking officer of the Honduran Armed Forces.
The deputy of the ruling Libertad y Refundación (Libre) party and former prosecutor Jari Dixon lamented the murder of Almendares in a message posted on the social network Twitter.
“ The prosecutor Karen Almendares is murdered in Nacaóme, my deepest condolences to her family, Karen was my assistant when I was a prosecutor, how terrible ”, indicated Dixon.
Prosecutor Karen Almendarez is murdered in Nacaome, my deepest condolences to her family, Karen was my assistant when I was a prosecutor, who terrible.
— Jari Dixon (@JariDixon) May 28, 2022
The criminal violence suffered by Honduras leaves an average of between ten and thirteen dead daily, according to official sources.
The local newspaper El Heraldo indicated that So far the motives for the brutal attack are unknown. The authorities of the Police Directorate of Investigations (DPI) arrived at the scene to begin the investigations.
The murder of Almendares is the third crime of this type in Latin America in less than a month. On May 10, the Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci was assassinated in Colombia, while this week the Ecuadorian prosecutor Luz Marina Delgado was killed.
Marcelo Pecci (REUTERS/Jorge Adorno/File)
The Marcelo Pecci case
Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci was assassinated on May 10 in Colombia. Three lost their lives being shot in an attack by unknown persons on a beach on the Barú peninsula, in the Colombian city of Cartagena.
The official was He was on his honeymoon with his wife Claudia Aguilera, whom he married on April 30 last. A few hours before the crime, & nbsp; Aguilera had announced that she is pregnant .
The murder was confirmed by & nbsp; Sophia López Garelli, Paraguayan ambassador to Colombia. According to the investigations, the attackers were on jet skis. The prosecutor’s wife escaped unharmed.
From the Ministry of Foreign Affairs they reported that López Garelli was instructed to gather the details of what happened, and to make contact with the victim’s wife and with the highest security authorities in that country. The consul Romy Romero He also traveled to Cartagena for closer monitoring.
Marcelo Daniel Pecci was 45 years old and was one of the agents of the Public Ministry appointed to the megaoperative “A Ultranza Py”, which investigates a massive drug trafficking and money laundering scheme, recalled the local newspaper ABC.
The same medium published that in recent months he was in charge other investigations related to organized crime, such as the double attack at the “Ja’umina” music festival, in San Bernardino, in January of this year.
Pecci also worked on the investigation of the murder of the daughter of the governor of Amambay and three other people in Pedro Juan Caballero, in October 2021; and in the highly publicized case of the provision of false Paraguayan documents to former Brazilian soccer player Ronaldinho, who was arrested in Paraguay in March 2020.
The official joined the Paraguayan Public Ministry as an assistant in 2000 and became a prosecutor in 2009.
Prosecutor Luz Marina Delgado (Photo: El Universo)
The crime of Luz Marina Delgado
The prosecutor Luz Marina Delgado and the lawyer Jeferson Mendoza were murdered by gunmen in Manta, 420 kilometers from Quito. The agent of the State Attorney General participated, in 2018, in an operation that allowed the capture of Washington Prado’s partner, known as ‘alias Gerald’ or the ‘Ecuadorian Pablo Escobar’.
Delgado and Mendoza were traveling in a red vehicle that lost control and crashed into the wall of a house after its occupants were hit by bullets.
Witnesses told the press that they heard a burst of gunshots< /b>. As soon as the incident was known, members of the National Police and intelligence agents arrived at the scene. Likewise, medical personnel treated the victims and confirmed their death.
The murder of prosecutor Delgado is a new attack against the officials of the Prosecutor’s Office, since other agents also they have died under the modality of contract killings. This month the murder of an agent in Santo Domingo, 152 kilometers from Quito, as a result of a shootout, was also reported. In Esmeraldas, on Ecuador’s northern border, a former prosecutor was also killed.
The State Attorney General’s Office issued a statement confirming the start of investigations to clarify the crime, which it described as “execrable.” The institution rejected the attempts to intimidate its officials, whom they support in its investigative work, according to the bulletin.
The institution asked the National Police and other entities in charge of citizen security to act “with greater efficiency so that these types of events are not repeated”.
Delgado participated four years ago in the arrest of Julia J.M.G. , partner of alias “Gerald”, who had an arrest warrant for investigative purposes for the crime of money laundering. Julia was arrested in a police operation on April 17, 2018. As a result of that operation, the authorities seized USD 7,000 in cash and a cell phone.
The capture, in which Delgado intervened, happened three days after Julia J. M. G. regained her freedom thanks to a favorable ruling by a court of judges and after having been in jail for the crime of organized crime. Los judges were prosecuted for malfeasance.
In early May, the lawyer Walter Vallejo, who defended alias “ Gerald” was executed by a hitman in front of the entrance to a luxurious hotel in Guayaquil. According to the testimony of a person who accompanied Vallejo Pino, the criminal who shot the deceased was dressed in all black, He got off a silver motorcycle and fled in the same vehicle with the complicity of another person who was driving the motorcycle.
The murder of the criminal, as well as that of the prosecutor, < b>happened during the state of emergency decreed by President Guillermo Lasso in Guayas, Manabí and Esmeraldas, by which s military and police troops walk the streets.