Fany and I have been whispering about this for a few weeks now, but today it is all over the news so I guess it's okay to write about it publicly.
Fany comes from a small town where the head of the biggest gang of narcos live. Her family was supposed to come and visit but then things started going nuts there. The local people said that the head of the gang and his brother turned themselves in to the US government because they were about to be killed by rivals here in Honduras. The problem was that nobody could confirm it.
Therefore rivals were going through the villages, turning everything upside down, looking for this man and his brother. They were going house to house, which meant that everyone was holed up, not daring to leave their home. Fany's parents couldn't visit because they had to stay and protect their home.
A couple of days ago it was finally confirmed publicly that the man and his brother had turned themselves in and were being held in Miami, FL. They left because they feared for their lives if they stayed in Honduras. Today the news is talking about all of the homes and cars and businesses that are being seized by the President of Honduras because it was related to this gang.
The strange thing to me is that they don't even pretend that they are going to distribute the things they seize to the poor or needy. The film clips show the president talking about sending furniture to his home!
What a shame.
Hopefully things will calm down soon so that Fany's parents can have some peace again. But there seems to be a lot more still to be confiscated.
And in regular news, the price of eggs is frozen for 30 days, there is less cheese than normal because the lack of rain means less for the cows to feed on and therefore, they are not making as much milk, and the weather is "beneficial" for migraines. Not sure if that means beneficial for causing migraines, or beneficial for those who suffer from migraines.
I don't know if I will ever get used to living in a place where it is not safe to speak in a normal tone about politics and the leaders of the country. Families learn to talk in code over the telephone and whisper, even in our own backyard.
