REPORT LINKS HONDURAN GOVT, INDUSTRY TO ACTIVIST KILLINGS
Source: Associated Press
Jan 31, 6:31 PM EST
REPORT LINKS HONDURAN GOVT, INDUSTRY TO ACTIVIST KILLINGS
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- An international watchdog group released a report Tuesday linking top Honduran politicians and members of the business elite to violence against land activists.
The report from London-based Global Witness, two years in the making, names several dozen Hondurans with ties to the government, military and industry who it says are implicated in attacks on activists and acts of corruption.
"The beneficiaries of corruption are the political and business elite, who use criminal means to take advantage of the country's natural resources and, with the support of state forces, terrorize and kill those who dare to get in the way," said Billy Kyte, a senior campaigner with Global Witness.
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The report calls on the United States to rethink its financial backing for Honduran industry, as well as the police and military, which it says "are heavily implicated in violence against land and environmental activists."
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John Negroponte (middle), who as Ambassador to Honduras under Reagan helped see to it that Honduras become Central America's main transshipment point for U.S.-bound cocaine. The Contras had to be funded somehow, and after 1983 this became the easiest way.
The drug mafias that were spawned would go on to turn Honduras into the murder capital of the world - and in a roundabout way even help Trump get elected due to the recent unaccompanied child border crossing crisis from 2014.
Negroponte must be quite pleased with himself.