In Honduras, Military Takes Over with U.S. Blessing

[Judi Lynn]

In Honduras, military takes over with U.S. blessing
Posted on Wednesday, 09.11.13

BY DANA FRANK
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It’s widely known that the Honduran police are corrupt, thoroughly enmeshed in organized crime, drug trafficking, and extrajudicial killings. But rather than clean them up, the current government of President Porfirio Lobo — itself the product of an illegitimate election after the military coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya in June 2009 — has now, ominously, sent in the military to take over policing on a massive scale.

The United States, meanwhile, is pouring funds into both Honduran security forces, countenancing a militarization of the Honduran police that has long been illegal here at home, while dismissing Congressional pushback about human rights issues in Honduras.

The Honduran police are, indeed, corrupt almost beyond belief. According to a top Honduran government commission, only 30 percent of the police are currently “rescuable.” In Octber 2011, police killed the son of the rector of the nation’s largest university, and one of his friends. The national director of police, Juan Carlos “El Tigre” Bonilla, is an alleged death squad leader from 1998-2002, and the Associated Press has recently documented ongoing death squad-style killings.

President Lobo and the Honduran Congress clearly lack the political will to clean up the police, in large part because top political figures, including judges, prosecutors, and congressmembers, are themselves allegedly interlaced with organized crime, drug traffickers, and those accused of extrajudicial killings.

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[99th_Monkey]

1. hmmm... somehow that story-line has a familiar ring to it .. ?

US-backed Military removes democratically elected President?

Didn't this just happen in Egypt?

[Judi Lynn]

3. They're getting slick at it these days. Guess the idea is why change something

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they know they can pull off in no time at all, since they created the pattern for it. It's been in use for so many generations by now.

They expect us all to be as stupid and as amoral as Republicans and to approve of all their dirty schemes, plots, actions which they use to take away elected leaders, and replace them with bloody monsters whose first allegiance is to the US military industrial complex.

Sad. And rotten. Shameful. Vicious. Dead wrong.

[Judi Lynn]

8. It's odd seeing the same thing happening over and over, isn't it? n/t

[99th_Monkey]

10. yep, it's like groundhog day all over again. nt

[delrem]

2. OK, but at the very end of this article it says:

"The Obama administration should heed the voices in Congress and stop funding Honduran state security forces immediately. It should denounce the militarization of the Honduran police, distance itself from the corrupt Honduran government that has promoted it, and do everything it can to ensure a free and fair election in November."

That's to pretend that HRC wasn't SOS at that time and that HRC/Obama enjoined the coup from the start.
That's to pretend that HRC/Obama should denounce the offspring of Satan that they brought into being.
That's to pretend that anyone should give a shit what Obama claims to say about "free and fair elections".

[Judi Lynn]

4. You've got it. He may as well be Ronald Reagan, George H. W. or George W. . n/t

[Scootaloo]

5. DO YOU WANT THE REPUBLICANS TO WIN?!?!

[MisterP]

6. the first narcostate--before Bolivia, even

[Zorro]

7. But it's OK when Venezuela gives their military policing authority

[Bacchus4.0]

9. I don't recall the US giving the blessing n/t

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