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The curse of the wolves

2022-07-15T00:26:36.456Z


After the murder of Said, son of Porfirio Lobo, the former president of Honduras embodies the country's ills: corruption, violence and drug trafficking. Two of his children died, another is convicted and his wife is in jail.


There are surnames that seem to summarize the recent history of a country, adding one misfortune after another in just four letters.

This is Lobo, the last name of the former president of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo, who governed the country between 2010 and 2014 and whose son was murdered on Wednesday night in Tegucigalpa when he was leaving a nightclub.

With the death of Thursday, Porfirio Lobo, 75, adds two dead children, another convicted in the United States for drug trafficking and his wife imprisoned for misappropriation after a trial that must be repeated.

The youngest of the Lobos, Said Lobo Bonilla, 19, and three other men who were with him were attacked by an armed commando in the center of the capital, a few meters from Morazán Boulevard, where the largest number of locals are concentrated. entertainment in Tegucigalpa.

Another of the deceased is Luis Zelaya, 23, nephew of the former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces Romeo Vásquez, who went to the scene of the crime and confirmed that the young people "were taken out of the vehicles and killed", with shots in the head.

The other three victims are the driver of the vehicle Salomón Velásquez and Enrique Rodríguez.

The images captured by the security cameras leave no room for doubt that the attack was planned and that at least five men dressed in special police equipment and long weapons were involved and that they managed to carry out the massacre in just 106 seconds.

The young people were leaving the parking lot of the nightclub when several men appeared from a van who blocked their way, got them out of the vehicle, put them next to a wall and opened fire at a short distance.

The incident was recorded around 2 in the morning, local time, at the exit of the parking lot of the Torre Morazán building, on the banks of a boulevard in the Honduran capital.

Denis Castro, former director of Forensic Medicine, confirmed upon seeing the images that it was a "well-planned" crime.

The police chief attributed the murder to gangs, while President Xiomara Castro's entourage insinuated that they are attacks focused on destabilizing the country.

Currently, criminal violence in Honduras leaves an average of between 10 and 13 deaths per day, according to police sources and human rights organizations, but the case of the Lobo family is paradigmatic.

On May 20, 2015, Fabio Lobo, another son of the former president, was arrested in Haiti and captured by the DEA and sentenced to 24 years in prison, plus five on parole for conspiring to import and distribute cocaine in the United States.

According to information from the New York Prosecutor's Office, Lobo was linked to

Los Cachiros

, one of the main drug trafficking organizations in Honduras that collaborates with the DEA.

The

Los Cachiros

cartel was led by Eriberto and Devis Rivera Madariaga, two brothers who surrendered to the United States authorities in January of this year.

As heard in a New York courtroom, Lobo also had a close friendship with Ramón Matta, son of legendary drug lord Ramón Matta Ballasteros.

The tragedy for the former president's family continued with the death of his son Javier Lobo, who died in Olancho, where he lived and worked in the fields with his grandparents.

According to the doctors who treated him, Cristian Javier, 37, died of alcohol poisoning.

The Honduran left behind five children and his mother, who currently resides in the United States.

In 2014, Javier Lobo had been arrested in compliance with an arrest warrant against him issued by the courts after violating the alternative measures he had for the accusation of mistreating his ex-girlfriend, who filed the complaint with the Ministry Public.

Apart from her children, Rosa Elena de Lobo, Rosita, as the former president calls her, was sentenced to 58 years in prison for the crimes of fraud and misappropriation of public funds.

Bonilla Lobo remains in prison for the so-called 'Lady's Petty Cash' case, according to which the former First Lady diverted funds for her own use through a money laundering network of public money destined for works.

Rosa de Lobo received prison permission this Thursday to attend the funeral of her son.

According to the first investigations, the MS-13 gang is behind the murder that has shocked Honduras due to the speed and the names of the dead.

“The murder of four young people, including a son of former president Porfirio Lobo Sosa, is attributed to members of the Mara Salvatrucha.

The intention is to cause chaos, instability and terror,” said the director of the National Police, Gustavo Sánchez.

President Xiomara Castro condemned the murder that she attributed to "the death squads", and some voices around her pointed out that there are attempts to destabilize her government with massacres like the one on Thursday.

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Source: elparis

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