Honduran death squads (death squads in Honduras)

Most recently, the US backed the electoral fraud and bloody repression by the death-squad regime in Honduras last November, which left up to 30 protesters dead. The main concern of Washington is that the FSLN bureaucracy has sought to maneuver between economic and military ties with the US and its ...

Just shy of a century later, the Wyke-Aycinena Treaty, was was supposed to confirm British rights to Belize (then known as British Honduras). .... There is a perversity about the name of the road: During a century of death squads and dictatorship, the presidency of Jacobo Arbenz represented a fleeting ...

Mexico has tried to control the flow of people persecuted in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. They go through Mexico in hopes of making in to freedom in the United States. Many of them are women and children. They are running for their lives from drug cartels and military death squads. The Mexican ...

“Honduras, Mexico and many other countries that the U.S. is very generous to, sends many of their people to our country through our WEAK ... The “caravan” in question is a group of about 1,200 migrants, mostly Hondurans fleeing violence in their home country, who are making their way through Mexico to ...

One of those officials who played a key role in hiding U.S. support for death squads in Nicaragua was John Bolton, then serving as Assistant Attorney General under Edwin Meese. ... Most recently, Covington came under scrutiny for its role in the 2009 military coup that ousted Manuel Zelaya in Honduras.

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS — The March 3 arrest of a Honduran business executive, for allegedly orchestrating the 2016 murder of renowned ... Even before they went to the polls, many Hondurans considered Hernandez's candidacy illegitimate, as the Honduran constitution does not allow presidents to ...

The Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), the human rights group that helped Urbina leave Honduras safely and has advocated on his behalf, confirmed Wednesday that Urbina was in the care of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as an asylum seeker in ...

A regular customer is the Philippines: a nation which for years has engaged in state-sponsored extrajudicial killings by death squads. ... Days after Baroness Anelay of St Johns visited Honduras, the first official trip by a UK minister in 15 years, the Tories issued a licence for telephone eavesdropping ...

The creation, with U.S. support, of new military and elite police forces in Honduras has fueled fears of a return to the era of death squads. In an interview in late January with Radio Progreso, a former Honduran army captain, Santos Orellana Rodriguez, said that Honduras' military intelligence is behind the ...

In Honduras, while acting as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton helped facilitate a violent chapter in Honduran history, mired by catastrophic violence, including the targeting of local activists. In 2016, Bertha Oliva, who in 1981 ... We know there are death squads in Honduras." Despite this chilling reality, ...

“Many [human rights defenders of Honduras] have had death threats and we are surrounding them,” Maryjane said. “Also, we are here to protest the corrupt election and the U.S.'s corruption in the militarization of Honduras.” They worked side by side with the Honduran religious community and human ...

And that 'in 2012 and 2013, more people were murdered in Honduras than in Iraq, even though the population in Honduras is three times smaller'. Also that in 2012, there were ... The authoritarian gangs, the police gangsters, the extortionists, the kidnappers, the death squads. He inhabits a place where ...

The Honduran Congress is currently discussing a bill to fine or ban social network companies and Internet providers that don't eliminate “illegal content” ... But more than intimidating the population, these actions have inspired determined popular demands for an end to the death-squad regime placed in ...

Under Negroponte, US troops expanded their presence at the Soto Cano air base, often referred to as a “US base” by Hondurans. US military assistance to Honduras jumped from $4 million to $77.4 million a year from 1981 to 1985, despite the CIA acknowledging internally that the Honduran military ...

In the 1980s in El Salvador, where the US-funded government sponsored death squads that were murdering civilians by the thousands, Congress passed ... Most recently, the Trump administration has followed that same pattern in Central America: Just two days after the Honduran government was widely ...