Napoleón Nazar Herrera (pronounced: Nassar) is a Honduran military officer who worked in the controversial Battalion 3–16[1][2] who successively became leader of the General Department of Criminal Investigation (DGIC),[3] high Commissioner of Police for the north-west region in the Manuel Zelaya government,[2] and one of the Secretary of Security's spokespeople in the de facto government of Roberto Micheletti.[4][5]
As of late 2005, during the Ricardo Maduro presidency, Nazar was leader of the General Department of Criminal Investigation (DGIC).[3] On 5 June 2005, agents from the DGIC put a community leader who had been stabbed and wounded on his face, neck, back, sides and hands by paramilitaries, Feliciano Pineda, into chains and imprisoned him in Gracias.[3]
During the Manuel Zelaya presidency, Nazar was high Commissioner of Police for the north-west region.[1][2]
In the government of Roberto Micheletti following the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Nazar became one of the Secretary of Security's spokespeople for communicating with protestors ((in Spanish): uno de los designados por la Secretaría de Seguridad para el diálogo).[4] Following police violence against thousands of demonstrators from the Copán and Santa Bárbara regions campaigning on 17 July 2009 for a new law about mineral resources, Nazar stated that for anyone who felt aggrieved, prosecutors and human rights exist.[5]
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