The Most Dangerous City in the World Is Not Where You Think It Is

[Judi Lynn]

The Most Dangerous City in the World Is Not Where You Think It Is

There's a war brewing in Central America.

Robert Muggah and Steven DudleyAug 28 2013, 9:00 AM ET

Orlan Chavez was a quiet but efficient civil servant, a prosecutor known for successfully investigating money-laundering schemes run by Honduran politicians. In April, he was killed for doing his job, shot seven times by unknown attackers as he made his way home. In the days leading up to his assassination in the capital, Tegucigalpa, his office had seized several properties of Jose Miguel "Chepe" Handal Perez. Perez was running for the country's congress and was singled out as a "kingpin" by the U.S. Treasury Department for shifting tons of cocaine between Colombia and Mexico.

Though Chavez's assassination was tragic, it was treated like a statistic in Honduras. Since his brutal killing there have been no arrests, no public outcry, and virtually no media coverage. The country's top money laundering prosecutor was murdered in broad daylight, and it is likely that no one will ever know who did it.

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Although the last Central American civil war ended in the mid-1990s, the Northern Triangle bears many of the hallmarks of warfare. Some settings almost certainly meet the intensity criterion, measured by the number of casualties, types of weaponry used, and levels of destruction. They are also affected by highly organized armed groups that control people and territory, carry out operations with military-like precision, and even negotiate peace agreements and ceasefires. In many areas, gangs have replaced guerrillas and rule with staggering ruthlessness.

During one recent rampage, a well-armed criminal group caravanned through northern Guatemala. Their killing spree started out slowly: over a three-day period, they kidnapped and murdered four people. But after making their way to a rival's farm, they killed at least 27 more laborers, cutting them to pieces and smearing menacing messages on the walls with the victims' blood.

More:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/08/the-most-dangerous-city-in-the-world-is-not-where-you-think-it-is/278963/

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1. I thought the most dangerous city in the world

is Washington DC

[Judi Lynn]

2. Yes, you certainly have a point. Absolutely. They are dirty, vicious, soulless. n/t

[DBoon]

3. Think of how many people have been murdered by criminal gangs there

people in Iraq, Latin America.....

[Peace Patriot]

4. All prep for U.S. "free trade for the rich."

We REALLY need to understand what is going on in Honduras since the U.S.-supported, rightwing coup d'etat. The country is being TURNED INTO Colombia, quite deliberately, quite coldly, and quite according to plan, by means of the U.S. "war on drugs."

The U.S. "war on drugs" is worse than a farce. It is the primary means for militarizing and weaponizing the target country, funding and supporting the fascist elements within the country and destroying all semblance of civil life by which a given population might organize a political movement for social justice.

It is PREPARATION for U.S. "free trade for the rich."

So, the FIRST murderous gang--the prime mover of murderous gangs--is the consortium consisting of the Pentagon and its private 'contractors,' the DEA and its private 'contractors,' the FBI and its private 'contractors,' the CIA, of course, and its private 'contractors,' and associated malefactors like the USAID and its private 'contractors.'

THEY create the war. And, if the truth were known, they, a) are themselves involved in the drug trade and are using the "war on drugs" to eliminate rivals, and b) are involved in consolidating the trillion+ dollar drug trade into fewer hands, and better directing its immediate, immense profits, and are also likely involved in a Big Pharma/Big Ag/Big Chem master plan to take over and monopolize this lucrative trade in medicinal, recreational and/or addictive drugs, through legalization.

We've spent SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS (that we know about) on the "war on drugs" in Colombia. That money was used to MURDER thousands of LABOR LEADERS and other ADVOCATES OF THE POOR! That is what it was really FOR. With NO abatement of the flow of hard drugs into this country. And now that the REAL goals have been largely accomplished--decapitation of the labor movement, the brutal displacement of FIVE MILLION peasant farmers from their lands, and fascist gangs spreading fear and terror--NOW we have the U.S./Colombia "free trade for the rich" agreement, signed by Obama and Colombia's president, Manuel Santos, who has publicly called for legalization of all drugs!

What's. wrong. with. this. picture?

And now Honduras is enduring the same bloody wreckage of their society, as Colombia has been enduring for over a decade.

Absolute ruination, to prostrate the country before the God of Profit.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Right after the coup, large Honduran dirty landowners, like Miguel Facusse hired Colombians

from the narcotrafficking death squads, the paramilitaries (long directly associated with the Colombian military) to work for them as "security."

Landowners in Honduras hired Colombian paramilitaries, UN says

Members of the AUC, classified as a terrorist organisation by the US, reportedly hired to offer protection for landowners

Associated Press
theguardian.com, Friday 9 October 2009 09.50 EDT

Honduran landowners have reportedly hired former Colombian paramilitaries as mercenaries to protect them against possible violence stemming from government tensions, a UN panel said today.

The UN working group on mercenaries said that it has received reports that some 40 former members of United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia, or AUC. The US government classifies the AUC as a terrorist organisation.

They will protect properties and individuals "from further violence between supporters of the de facto government and those of the deposed President Manuel Zelaya," it said.

Separately, a 120-person group of paramilitaries from several countries in that region was reportedly created to support the coup in Honduras, the panel said.

Honduras is a party to the international convention against the recruitment, use, financing and training of mercenaries, the group said.

More:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/oct/09/honduras-colombia-auc-landowners

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The coup government even went to the trouble of bringing their Iran/Contra days arch-villain, who ran their own terrorist death squads out of retirement to start up again with the new right-wing government.

They need the people to do all their work for them, but only in conditions as close to slavery as possible. Anyone who resists their greedy plans gets terrorized, then assassinated through the actions of their zombie killer death squads.