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Added on the 26/06/2023 20:37:12 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Members of the Military Police of Public Order (PMOP) guard inmates at the National Penitentiary "Francisco Morazan" in Tamara after the government announced that military police would assume control of Honduras's 21 prisons for one year starting July 1, and train 2,000 new prison guards following clashes between rival gangs that left at least 46 women dead in a prison near the capital Tegucigalpa. IMAGES TO COMPLETE: 33KV7UU_EN + 33KX3YR_EN
Honduras State Secretary of the National Defence Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales publishes a video on his Twitter account showing handcuffed inmates on the floor of a prison under the surveillance of military police. IMAGES
Relatives of people who died in a women's prison in Honduras following a fire and clashes between rival gangs despair as the bodies of their loved ones are brought to an autopsy centre in the capital Tegucigalpa. IMAGES
Dozens of military and police inspect vehicles on an avenue leading to the center of Ecuador's port city of Guayaquil, after the government and drug mafias declared war on each other. The small South American country has been plunged into crisis after years of growing control by transnational cartels who use its ports to ship cocaine to the United States and Europe. IMAGES
Relatives wait outside the Tocoron prison in the Venezuelan northern state of Aragua as buses carrying inmates leave the facility, after authorities seized control of it from the hands of a powerful gang with international reach in a major operation involving 11,000 members of its security forces. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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