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The heavy-handed security measures introduced to tackle gang violence have triggered a spike in abuses and deaths.

FILE - Soldiers patrol the Riviera Hernandez neighborhood in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, June 27, 2023. President Xiomara Castro took office in 2022 as the first female president of Honduras, winning on a message of tackling corruption, inequality and poverty, and has sought to mimic neighboring El Salvador's crackdown on gangs. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez, File)

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