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During 2011, the Pentagon increased its military spending in the country of 71% over the previous year. Despite
the serious economic, institutional and social crisis that rammed to
Honduras since the coup, to the repeated complaints of corruption,
violation of human rights and collusion with organized crime aimed at
the national police, and the failure of the police treatment process,
United States still giving funds to continue its programs.
Speaking
to Opera Mundi, the Director of the Americas program of the ICC (Center
for international politics), Laura Carlsen, said that United States
"wants to have more control over security strategies internal of the
Central American countries, especially now that several progressive or
left-governments have been installed in Latin America. In
this sense - continued - United States seeks to strengthen its military
presence to confront what it sees as a threat to their traditional
hegemony in the region ", she said.According
to Félix Molina, it would be already seeing several signals showing the
progressiveness of such intervention in Honduran stage. "Kicked
off with the signing of an exchange of intelligence and experience
between the regime of Porfirio Lobo and Colombia and then came the
authorization to create new military bases of the United States in La
Mosquitia and the Caribbean." Also, are
witnessing the arrival of senior officials of the Department of State
and the direct intervention in the process of evaluation of the public
prosecutor, of cleansing of the police repression and creation of several laws",
says the journalist.Among the disputed
laws, Molina cited, among others, the anti-terrorism Act, the Act of
intervention of communications private, national intelligence Act and
the extradition act for Hondurans.Last March, the Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State of the United States, William Brownfield,
anti-narcotics Office reported on the approval of a financing of 16.3
million of dollars to create a police task force to combat the most
serious crimes.Keep
Honduras in the front pages of newspapers and newscasts as the most
violent country in the world and as a failed State would be, then, part
of the U.S. strategy to justify a possible intervention in fact. "United States manages a double standard to ensure its objectives and strategic priorities. We
are seeing increased its presence and its military bases in the region,
as well as their social projects and cooperation, hiding their true
interests,"said Borjas.A role, seemingly
silent and subtle but very effective in practice, according to Molina
seeks to strengthen institutionally the apparatus of security of
Honduras, but that in fact "aims to strengthen the army, i.e. the device
that monopolizes the Honduran State violence, and to ensure its
hegemonic control".
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