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Honduras: Terror in the Aguán
Written by Greg McCain
Thursday, 11 April 2013 12:05

Last year, liberation theologian and recognized Resistence leader Padre Fausto Milla publicly stated that LIBRE had high-level drug traffickers among its candidates. This earned him—no surprise—the enmity of the party, who threatened in return to sue.

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US blacklists Honduran 'drug lord' Chepe Handal
10 April 2013 Last updated at 12:09 ET

The United States Treasury has frozen any assets held in the US by the alleged leader of a Honduran drug-trafficking organisation.

The US Treasury accused Jose Miguel Handal Perez, known as "Chepe Handal", of smuggling cocaine from Colombia and Venezuela to Mexican drug cartels.

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Is a World Bank Loan Funding Murders in Honduras?

by Jeremy Kryt – April 5, 2013
Bank-funded palm oil company implicated in “death squad” killings of land-rights activists

Today's press release from the Treasury Dept. (pasted below) includes a link to a Chepe Handal narco flow chart.

Treasury Designates Honduran Drug Traffickers
4/9/2013

Action Targets Honduran Link to Colombian and Mexican Narcotics Operations

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Will Congress act to stop US support for Honduras' death squad regime?
In Honduras, Reagan-era atrocities are back as the Obama administration funds a state implicated in murdering opponents
Mark Weisbrot
Saturday 30 March 2013 08.00 EDT

The video (warning: contains graphic images of lethal violence), caught randomly on a warehouse security camera, is chilling.

From CEPR's The Americas Blog:

"We’re Witnessing a Reactivation of the Death Squads of the ‘80s": An Interview with Bertha Oliva of COFADEH

Written by Alex Main
Friday, 29 March 2013 16:10

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John Negroponte, William Brownfield and Death Squads Inc.
By Cort Greene

Friday, 04 March 2005

William Brownfield gave a speech in which he stated that the U.S. will support the Honduran police but ignore its commander.