President Maduro tried, and what was he greeted with? Condemnation by the Obama administration, Amnesty International, the OAS, and the EU. Maduro almost single handedly defeated MS-13 and all other gangs. And then we pulled the rug out from under him.
Honduras and other states suffer from a common ailment (the US suffers from it to, but to a lesser degree): the inability to execute justice. This includes but is not limited to the swift enforcement of the death penalty.
I might do an essay for FR on the whole of the issue.
“Our State Department has done nothing to help these countries institute rule of law and the execution of justice.”
Why should we be responsible for another
country’s law and order? Instead of
walking a thousand miles to get here,
they should concentrate that energy
to fixing their own problems.
A lion can be defeated with a rock
if enough of them are thrown. If
their home countries are so bad as to
being inhabitable, they should stand
and fight to change it, instead of
running away. These people are cowards.