Dana Frank: WikiLeaks Honduras: US Linked to Brutal Businessman
Since 2009, beneath the radar of the international media, the coup government ruling Honduras has been collaborating with wealthy landowners in a violent crackdown on small farmers struggling for land rights in the Aguán Valley in the northeastern region of the country. Over 46 campesinos have been killed or disappeared. Human rights groups charge that many of the killings have been perpetrated by the private army of security guards employed by Miguel Facussé, a biofuels magnate.
Facussé's guards work closely with the Honduran military and police, which receive generous funding from the United States to fight the war on drugs in the region.New Wikileaks cables now reveal that the U.S. Embassy in Honduras--and therefore the State Department--has known since 2004 that Miguel Facussé is a cocaine importer. U.S. "drug war" funds and training, in other words, are being used to support a known drug trafficker's war against campesinos.
[ALSO SEE...The role of USAID in the New Selloff of Honduras http://quotha.net/node/1748 Honduras | U.S. military and police aid grants by country HONDURAS-U.S. Aid to Honduras, All Programs, 2007-2012 http://justf.org/Country?country=Honduras 2010 -58,408,679/2011- 72,574,67/ 2012 - 72,606,679
Statement of SOA Watch Delegation to US Embassy in Honduras http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/05/statement-of-soa-watch-delegation-to-us.html Call to Denounce Military/Police Aid to Honduras http://www.rightsaction.org/articles/Contact_%20StateDep_Honduran_Aid_102110.html
HONDURAN PROTESTS AGAINST US BASES MET WITH REPRESSION) Honduras Protesta frente a base militar de Soto Cano reprimida por fuerzas policiales http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/06/honduran-protests-against-us-bases-met.html Honduras: With peasant blood, the oligarchy fertilized African palms Juan Almendares http://alainet.org/active/46356&lang=es
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