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Newer posts →. US Secret Drug War in Honduras: Botched DEA Raid Leaves 2 Pregnant Women, 2 Men Dead. May 18, 2012. The US. Drug Enforcement Agency has confirmed its agents were on board a U.S.-owned helicopter with Honduran police officers when four people were shot and killed on a boat earlier this week. Two of the victims were said to be pregnant women. The deadly incident has highlighted the centrality of Honduras in the U.S.-backed drug […]. US and Canada policy on Honduras. May 18, 2012. May 18, 2012.

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Three years of Resistance to the Coup in Honduras | Honduras: Human Rights

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Three years of Resistance to the Coup in Honduras. Posted on June 27, 2012. Contact:(English o Español): Michael Bass (San Francisco) , Victoria Cervantes (Chicago) (312) 259-504,. Honduras Solidarity Network: honsolnet@gmail.com. These activities are done in the name of combatting narcotics traffic in order to justify intervention in the county; and with this (intervention) it is logical that we will never have a future that approaches having a State strengthened by respect for the citizens’ civil and p...

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HRW: Investigate Killing of Four Civilians | Honduras: Human Rights

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HRW: Investigate Killing of Four Civilians. Posted on May 18, 2012. Washington, DC) Honduran and US authorities should ensure a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation of the alleged killing of four civilians and wounding of four others during a joint counternarcotics operation in the Mosquitia region of Honduras. The director of Honduras’s National Police said in a press conference that members carried out a security operation on May 11 to intercept illicit drugs in which people were killed, and t...

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U.S. Military Aid Fuels a Human Rights Crisis in Honduras | Honduras: Human Rights

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US Military Aid Fuels a Human Rights Crisis in Honduras. Posted on June 15, 2012. Militarization of the Aguán Valley. Have you received training from the United States? Yes, the oldest soldier replies. What kind of training? Close combat, counter narcotics… We learn how to combat drug-trafficking. We spend six months in practical training and three months on theory. When asked who trained him he hesitates briefly, averts his gaze and timidly lists names of U.S. Captains and Generals. Sometimes the commun...

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U.S. Human rights activists document US participation in massacre of Moskito people | Honduras: Human Rights

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US Human rights activists document US participation in massacre of Moskito people. Posted on May 31, 2012. One of the Ahuas massacre victim. Since the massacre Ahuas has been occupied by several dozen Honduran troops, and it is reported that U.S. military presence in the vicinity of Ahuas is increasing. U.S. government authorities recognize that counterinsurgency tactics are being used while they identify the indigenous communities as drug traffickers. Indigenous communities in Ce...Many people the group...

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Observatory of Violence in Honduras: Annual Report 2011 | Honduras: Human Rights

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Observatory of Violence in Honduras: Annual Report 2011. Posted on May 18, 2012. The Observatory on Violence from the Democracy, Peace and Security Institute (IUDPAS), published the 24th edition of their Annual Report 2011, which reached eight uninterrupted years of providing reliable, systematic and heterogeneous data on the behavior of insecurity in Honduras from data collected by different official institutions. Homicides in Honduras 2004-2011, Comparative Chart in Number of Cases per 100,000 Habitants.

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NYT, WaPo Let Unnamed U.S. Officials Spin Honduras Killings | Honduras: Human Rights

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NYT, WaPo Let Unnamed U.S. Officials Spin Honduras Killings. Posted on May 18, 2012. The details are somewhat murky, but we know the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is heavily involved in counternarcotics in Honduras. A shooting incident last Friday reportedly left four innocent people dead including two pregnant women. Questions are being raised about whether they were shot by DEA agents who were apparently going after a boat carrying drug smugglers. The official also expressed doubts that villagers would ...

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The DEA and the Return of the Death Squads | Honduras: Human Rights

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The DEA and the Return of the Death Squads. Posted on June 27, 2012. Military patrol in Ahuas, Moskitia. On the Rio Patuca near Ahuas, a small municipality in the Moskitia, a helicopter titled to the US State Department sprayed bullets into a. I arrived in Honduras on May 18. A motorboat with a capacity of about 15 people, to take us across the Lagunas. It was approximately an hour and a half in the scorching midday sun before we reached the port. Once there, we loaded into a giant pickup truck f...After...

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Consequences of the military occupation | Honduras: Human Rights

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Consequences of the military occupation. Posted on May 15, 2012. Although we have not read the official reaction of the U.S. Embassy about the tragic military actions of the Drug Enforcement Agency in detriment of the civilian population of the municipality of Ahuas in La Mosquitia, we can draw three preliminary conclusions. The first one is that the operation launched at night against suspected drug dealers early Friday, was led by U.S. military uniformed agents of the DEA. The third conclusion drawn fr...