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Post by blindpig » Tue Dec 19, 2017 3:31 pm

Honduras Rejects OAS Calls for New Elections

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A military police removes a burning tire from a barricade settled by opposition supporters during a protest, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras December 18, 2017. | Photo: Reuters

Published 18 December 2017

Honduran officials are rejecting calls for new elections in spite of widespread fraud allegations and mass protests.
After the Organization of American States called for new elections in Honduras, a senior government official in the Honduran government flatly rejected the call.

After the Honduran electoral authorities announced on Sunday that the pro-U.S. right-wing incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez had won the election in spite of widespread allegations of irregularities and mass street protests, the OAS, who had remained largely silent on the issue, said that the electoral process did not meet “democratic standards.”

While the OAS said they could not confirm if there was fraud or not, they called for a new round of elections to clear the ambiguity.

First Vice President Ricardo Alvarez responded sharply, saying that the call was in violation of Honduran sovereignty. “This is an autonomous and sovereign nation ... This is a nation that is not going to do what anybody from an international organization tells it to do.”

Honduras under President Orlando Hernandez had previously backed OAS interference in Venezuela's affairs earlier this year, during the organization's debates on opposition protests against President Nicolas Maduro.

Honduras has been rocked by protests calling for another electoral round following an electoral process ridden with fraud allegations and irregularities, which supporters of center-left candidate Salvador Nasralla say robbed them of the election.

Protesters have been met with heavy police repression, with several deaths and numerous injuries registered in recent weeks.

Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who was removed in a U.S.-backed coup in 2009, has been a key actor in both supporting Nasralla, and mobilizing protesters to continue street actions.

Various other international groups have issued calls against the right-wing leadership in Honduras and the alleged electoral fraud. Several U.S.-based human rights groups have called for the United States to revoke its military support to the country, and have condemned their country's role in overthrowing the center-left government of Zelaya.

“We have seen a massive increase in human rights violations, including threats and violence against journalists, Indigenous communities, and human rights defenders, since the 2009 coup,” Elise Roberts of Witness for Peace said.

“The assassination of Berta Caceres marked a new level of state violence and impunity, and the reported fraud in the Nov. 26 elections, and the violence and repression since, are a reinforcement of this illegitimate and violent government,” she continued, referring to the assassination of environmental leader Berta Caceres by state forces.

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OAS Calls for Honduran Election to be Redone

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Jorge Tuto Quiroga, chief of the Organization of American States, OAS, electoral observer mission, speaks during a news conference in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. | Photo: Reuters

Published 18 December 2017

“The people of Honduras deserve an electoral process that confers them democratic quality and guarantees,” said Luis Almagro
The Organization of American States, OAS, called for a new round of elections Sunday to guarantee voter rights are being respected and the procedure is being observed.

The Electoral Tribunal announced Sunday, the results of the recount, saying presidential candidate and incumbent leader, Juan Orlando Hernandez had won by 1.53 percentage points.

However, the OAS electoral observer mission said Sunday that though it could not confirm that the election had been “intentionally manipulated," the process was filled with suspicious inconsistencies.

“The people of Honduras deserve an electoral process that confers them democratic quality and guarantees,” said OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro in a statement. He added: “The electoral process that the tribunal concluded today clearly did not provide that."

The OAS said the only way for the Hondurans to be properly represented and for the victor to reflect the votes of the people would be to conduct a new election that adheres to the strictest measure of the law.


The inconsistencies of the TSE’s review process were discussed during a late press conference with the Electoral Observation Mission, EOM. According to the foreign delegation, the 82 experts had not ensured that the necessary precautions had not been taken to guarantee it’s integrity.

The OAS observers encouraged Hondurans to “remain calm and act responsibly," assuring that the issue will be resolved, denouncing the number of deaths and injuries which have resulted from a series of violent protests around the nation.

However, the European Union election observers have stated they did not encounter any irregularities in the process.

“After comparing a large random sample of voting records provided to us by the Alliance and the original records published on the tribunal’s website, the mission observed that the results presented practically no differences,” said Jose Antonio de Gabriel, the adjunct head of the EU’s mission.

For his part, the opposition candidate, Santiago Nasralla, expressed through a video posted on Facebook that "It is clear that there was fraud before, during and after the elections. (...) The President of the Republic at this moment is an impostor, and the Honduran people know it ".

Nasralla called for a resurgence of protests Monday. The leftist candidate arrives in the United States and plans to meet with Almagro as well as members of the State Department and human rights organizations to denounce the alleged fraudulent elections and solve the current political crisis.

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Post by blindpig » Tue Dec 19, 2017 5:20 pm

Salvador Nasralla warned that Honduras is on the verge of a civil war by proclamation of the TSE

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Published on 19/12/2017 by EveRico

Honduras is on the verge of a civil war in case the current president remains four years in front of the Executive, warned Monday from Washington the candidate of the Alliance Opposition, Salvador Nasralla.

After he was received at the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS), where he presented evidence on the allegations of fraud filed by the coalition, he recalled that his opponent Juan Orlando Hernández stole the 2013 elections, and "he is in a point that he knows he lost and he knows he would lose in a new election because he has 80 percent of the people against him, this is unsustainable and we are on the verge of a civil war. "

On the murders of the demonstrators who supported him during the general fight, he maintained that " the town is claiming and there are more than 20 dead , people who were killed by the military that President Hernández handles", denounced Nasralla.

He also stressed that the allegations of fraud are not new, "only that at that time I had no evidence, but now, that's why we present them to Mr. Almagro and show them to the US State Department."

Regarding the call made by almagro to hold new elections, he detailed that an independent electoral tribunal is required and not the current one because it obeys the interests of the candidate for re-election.

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Post by blindpig » Tue Dec 19, 2017 7:15 pm

Salvador Nasralla: Honduras At Risk of ‘Civil War’
Posted by INTERNATIONALIST 360° on DECEMBER 19, 2017

President Juan Orlando Hernandez said in a news conference that people should come together under a “national consensus.”

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Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has addressed his controversial re-election, saying “we are all brothers and we all hope for the same future.”

Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was announced the official winner of the Honduran presidential elections that took place Nov. 26, said in a news conference this morning that people should come together under a “national consensus that allows us to work as a new country.”

He said that electoral results shouldn’t be used to create violence and destruction. He called for the people of Honduras to “construct our tomorrow for future generations,” adding that he promotes “dialogue for peace.”

Hernandez’s remarks come after two nights of protests by Salvador Nasralla supporters of the Opposition Alliance who say that the government institution in charge of the electoral process, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, TSE, “stole” the election from center-leftist Nasralla.


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Since Sunday’s results, a new wave of protest has broken out across Honduras during which military and police forces have killed three protesters, according to local media. Security forces continue to throw tear gas on crowds in Tegucigalpa.

Between Nov. 30 and Dec. 16, security forces killed 22 protesters claiming electoral fraud on part of the TSE, its director, David Matamoros and Hernandez.

Among the dead are a 16-year-old male killed in Ceiba and two demonstrators in Olancho, in eastern Honduras, according to the human rights organization, Committee of the Families of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras, or Cofadeh. Over 50 people were reported injured and 844 detained by policing forces.

The TSE announced Sunday that Juan Orlando Hernandez won with 1,410,888 votes over Salvador Nasralla with 1,360,442 popular votes.

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Related imageNasralla responded with a Facebook video in which he reiterated, “It is clear that there was fraud before, during and after the elections (…) The President of the Republic at this moment is an impostor, and the Honduran people know it.” According to La Prensa newspaper, the Opposition Alliance challenged 125 irregularities they say took place since Nov. 26.

In an early morning press conference in Washington, D.C. this morning, Nasralla said Honduras is at risk of a “civil war” and the government needs to redo its presidential election “recognized by the international community.”

“To be clear, I didn’t come to Washington to receive orders nor did I come here to ask for support for my electoral victory,” he said.

“Today, the people are defending this on the streets of Honduras, but they are being violently repressed by the Honduran government, which has destroyed the rule of law in the country.”

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Secretary-General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, who has hinted at a full recount or new elections in the past was finally unequivocal that the Honduran government should redo the elections.

It’s “impossible to determine the winner,” said the secretary-general. In a tweet Almagro said, “the only possible way to for the Honduran people to win is to call for a new election that respects the rule of law, with TSE and technical guarantees to reassure citizens and political party confidence.”

Over the past several weeks the TSE and international observation delegates from the Organization of the American States, OAS, and the European Union recounted ballots from 5,759 polling stations, representing 30 percent of all votes at Nasralla’s insistence of electoral fraud. The recount still placed Hernandez in the lead.

U.S. legislators are also coming out in support of a new Honduran election. Democratic Senator from Vermont, Patrick Leahy released a statement reading, “Unfortunately, the announcement by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal leaves too many questions unanswered. There were multiple opportunities for fraud in this election.” He added, “I urge the EU and the OAS to insist on whatever action – including a complete recount or a new election – is necessary to eliminate any reasonable suspicion of fraud that could have affected the result. I also urge the Honduran police to immediately cease the use of live ammunition against protesters.”

Minnesota Congress member, Keith Ellison tweeted, “What’s happening in Honduras is an affront to people across the world who believe in the rule of law. We in the United States have to speak clearly in denouncing that abuse of power.”

Almagro met with Nasralla yesterday in Washington, D.C. to discuss the “need to call for new elections, dialogue, reconciliation and non-violence”, according to Almagro’s twitter account.

Overnight protesters blocked streets and burned tires in San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa, Santa Barbara, El Progreso, Choluteca, among other cities.

National media says that all airports are running uninterrupted after earlier news that some international flights were delayed or canceled in San Pedro Sula.

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Honduras: 3 Confirmed Dead in Under 24 Hours
Local media reported that police officers were observed hurling tear gas canisters at protesters in the capital, Tegucigalpa.

During demonstrations on Monday, 26-year-old Cristian Funez was shot and killed in San Pedro Sula, northern Honduras.

According to the several witnesses accounts, Funez was fatally wounded by a bullet discharged by military personnel. Local reports indicate that there have been three deaths – at the hands of military and police officials – in the region, so far.

A new wave of violence broke out late Sunday across the country and continued into Monday morning. Local media reported that police officers were observed hurling tear gas canisters at protesters in the capital, Tegucigalpa.

Hondurans are generally displeased with the announcement, by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), that Juan Orlando Hernandez won the recently completed elections with 42.95 percent of the vote.

In a press conference on Sunday, an international observer representative disclosed that there had been several irregularities in the Nov. 26 Honduran polls.

Halfway through the count the opposition Alliance candidate, Salvador Nasralla, led Hernandez by five percentage points. Following a lengthy multi-day delay by the TSE, Hernandez edged ahead with a narrow gap between himself and Nasralla.

On Dec. 17, the TSE declared Juan Orlando Hernandez president-elect – eliciting wide-scale protests and many citing elections fraud.

More than 15 people have been reported dead, several injured and another 1,500 detained.

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Post by blindpig » Fri Dec 22, 2017 2:32 pm

The UN Condemns Deadly Violence in Honduras
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TEGUCIGALPA.–A group of UN and Inter-American Court of Human Rights rapporteurs condemned the killing of at least 12 people and the detention of hundreds of citizens who protested against the results of the presidential elections issued by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Honduras last Sunday.

The experts presented a report in Geneva, in which they warned of the critical political and social situation that the Central American country is experiencing and called on the national government to respect the human rights and life of Hondurans.

The document highlighted that street protests and unrest are not exceptional situations and do not justify the suspension of fundamental rights.

The Opposition Alliance against the Dictatorship in Honduras called this Wednesday morning for a series of national protests and mobilizations against the recent killings and repression and what they consider “fraud” in the elections of November 26.

Manuel Zelaya Rosales, coordinator of the Alliance, called on protests against “the vile murders, physical attacks, persecutions and aggressions carried out by the military, paramilitaries and police against the people who exercise their universal right to peaceful protest in defense of their vote.”

Through a statement, the Opposition coalition, which backed the presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla, expressed its support for peaceful protests and accused President Juan Orlando Hernández, re-elected according to the TSE, of being the main figure responsible for the recent events that have left at least 26 dead.

They called on the Honduran people to “actively protest” this Wednesday in front of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, located in Comayagüela. This Thursday the intention of the Alliance is to march toward the United States Embassy, after the U.S. government recognized Hernández’s triumph; while on Friday afternoon they have called for further street mobilizations across the country.

Nasralla, who lost by less than two percentage points after a long pause in the issuing of the electoral results, in which his advantage was suddenly and steadily eroded, traveled to Washington on Monday and met with the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, who considered that the most viable solution is to repeat the elections.

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Post by blindpig » Mon Jan 15, 2018 3:48 pm

UN Honduras denounces police violence in opposition marches

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Security forces assault protesters protesting what they consider a "fraud": the re-election of current President Juan Orlando Hernández. | Photo: The Herald. Published 15 January 2018

The OACNUDH expressed its concern over the events that have occurred since December, as well as this Friday in the march to protest the reelection of President Juan Orlando Hernández.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Honduras (OHCHR) published on Sunday, a communiqué repudiating the excessive use of force by the security forces in recent anti-government protests registered in the capital, Tegucigalpa .

The organism, expressed its concern about the violence unleashed in the country, in protest by the reelection of the current president Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH), promoted by the opposition, also summoning the uniformed to use principles of necessity and proportionality in their work.

"In that sense, the OHCHR expresses its concern about the widespread and indiscriminate use of tear gas that occurred on January 12, which has affected demonstrators who protested peacefully, as well as residents." add the document.

State violence

Last Friday 12 a protest was held in Tegucigalpa, promoted by the Alliance of Opposition against the Dictatorship led by the former presidential candidate of that coalition, Salvador Nasralla, who maintains that the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) committed a fraud in proclaiming to his rival, JOH.

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During the protests, the use of stones against protesters was recorded by some agents of the security forces, the text said, also reflecting several complaints about physical attacks against journalists covering the demonstration

In addition, the note from the UN High Commissioner demanded that the Government of Honduras adopt good dialogue practices between the security forces and the demonstrators, in order to prevent the use of violence to disperse the crowd.

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Putting 'fraud' in parentheses is bullshit, the evidence is overwhelming. Ya really gotta watch TeleSur, especially their English service, though this was from Spanish.
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Honduras: protests continue
This weekend the demonstrations left one dead and several wounded

Author: International Writing | international@granma.cu

January 21, 2018 22:01:08


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TEGUCIGALPA.-The post-electoral situation in Honduras continues to be tense and this weekend, after the days of protests, one citizen was killed, others were injured and about five were arrested.

The demonstrators, summoned by the Alliance of Opposition against the Dictatorship, within the framework of the denunciation of electoral fraud, closed several ways of communication with vehicles, stones and burnt tires.

During the protests they have reported the repression of the security forces and clashes between the demonstrators and the troops, who used tear gas to disperse the concentrations.

On the other hand, this Sunday the Honduran National Congress was constituted. The chamber, where 61 of the 128 seats are in the hands of the ruling National Party, was installed with the appointment of a provisional board of directors that was rejected by the opposition congressmen, DPA reported.

Outside the building they shouted "Fuera JOH, outside JOH reference to the president Juan Orlando Hernández, and in protest by the majority of representatives of the ruling party in the board of directors of the Chamber.

Honduras is immersed in a political crisis in the face of allegations of fraud by the opposition in the November elections, in which Hernández was declared the winner.

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Post by blindpig » Tue Jan 23, 2018 2:46 pm

Opposition Alliance Continues Protests in #OperationWASP

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President Juan Orlando Hernandez in Tegucigalpa, Honduras January 21, 2018 | Photo: Reuters

Published 22 January 2018 (15 hours 51 minutes ago)

“People have to continue in permanent mobilizationation in an operation that I call bees for the women, and wasps for men", says Zelaya.
The Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship in Honduras is pushing for more protests tomorrow in the capital city of Tegucigalpa in #OperaciónAVISPA (#OperationWASP).

Manuel Zelaya, secretary general of the Opposition Alliance tells the press, “People have to continue in permanent mobilization action in an operation that I call bees for the women, and wasps for men. This means that each has to sting where they are - sting here, sting there, come back, withdrawal strategically and go everywhere,” he advised.

Tomorrow’s protest is part of the Alliance’s strategy to focus its weeklong nationwide protest and general strike that began on Saturday and is running up to the swearing in of president-elect Juan Orlando Hernandez on Jan. 27.

"These mobilizations are ours. It’s our constitutional right to protest the (electoral) fraud, and they should continue at the national level and culminate in the national strike on the 27th”, tweeted Zelaya.

The Opposition Alliance alleges that the Nov. 26 Honduran presidential election was a fraud. The Opposition candidate, Salvador Nasralla, says the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) “stole” the elections from him on behalf of Hernandez and refuse to acknowledge that the incumbent was announced the official winner Dec. 17.

Election observers from the Organization of American States (OAS) and European Union say the election and counting process were laced with so many “irregularities” that it was impossible to determine a winner. As late as Dec. 27 the OAS secretary general was calling for a clean, fresh elections.

“In defense of the Alianza triumph and Salvador Nasralla, the whole country will mobilize and strike,” Zelaya said today in a tweet.

Since protests started up this week at least one person was killed by military forces and another severely injured, according to the non-government organization, Committee of the Families of Detained and Disappeared of Honduras (COFADEH).

COFADEH reports that since major protests began in late November, at least 31 people have been killed protesting the election results and another 232 injured - mainly at the hands of the military and national police.

The organization also says that 1,085 people were victims of "cruel, inhumane and degrading" behavior by state authorities.

Despite Almagro’s previous support of holding new elections to determine a Honduran president, today the leader of the OAS announced he will “work with all elected Honduran authorities at all levels and branches of government … to strengthen institutions and electoral reforms that enable the democratic (and) just democracy.”

Hernandez, whose first term which began in 2013, has been marked by accusations of corruption and crimes since he took office.

His election campaign was fraught with corruption and embezzlement as Hernandez and his party reportedly siphoned off US$90 million from the Honduran Social Security Institute to pay for his campaign. His administration has also been accused of orchestrating the assassination of several human rights activists in Honduras in the past four years.

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Post by blindpig » Fri Jan 26, 2018 5:43 pm

New Honduran Police Chief Collaborated with Drug Cartel: Report

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In this Jan. 15, 2018 photo, Honduras' new national Police Chief Jose David Aguilar Moran speaks at a ceremony that transferred command of the police force to him in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. | Photo: Twitter @PoliciaHonduras

Published 26 January 2018 (4 hours 5 minutes ago)

The Honduran government has denied the veracity of the report but former and current police officers have confirmed the claims against the police chief.
According to a confidential government security report obtained by the Associated Press, newly elected national police chief Jose David Aguilar helped a drug cartel to deliver nearly one ton of cocaine, packed inside a tanker truck, in 2013. According to the report the tanker was escorted by police officers to convicted drug trafficker Wilter Blanco's house.

Aguilar was serving as chief of intelligence for Honduras’ National Police at that time. The report by the Honduran Security Ministry’s Inspector General states Aguilar's participation came after a police official safeguarding the drugs was busted and the tanker seized. After receiving a call from the busted cop, Aguilar allegedly ordered the release of the officer and the truck.

“We are in a process of transforming the National Police, with a huge investment of financial resources,” Honduras's president said as he swore in the new chief; a claim overshadowed by news on the report.

The Honduran government has denied the veracity of the report, but former and current police officers have confirmed Aguilar's involvement in the 2013 case. Furthermore the Associated Press "confirmed the story using other internal memos and a page from Aguilar’s personnel file summarizing his alleged participation."

Police cover-ups and complicity with drug cartels in Honduras are widespread, while Honduras security forces have been linked to human rights abuses for over a decade. In the past two months, security forces have shot and killed at least a dozen demonstrators protesting an alleged electoral fraud by President Juan Orlando Hernandez. The United Nations has called on the government to respect the international humanitarian law when policing demonstration and to avoid the use of military police.

According to the AP, at least six former Honduran National Police officers are facing the U.S.

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Post by blindpig » Fri Feb 16, 2018 4:41 pm

It takes a special kind of asshole to lift talking points from Trump. Hillary sure knows how to pic 'em.
Nasralla in alliance with maras tried to steal election
Official Press President 13 February 2018 Nasralla in alliance with maras tried to steal election
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Tegucigalpa, February 12. President Juan Orlando Hernandez made this Monday, in the customary press appearance before the media, a complaint about the links between the Mara MS-13, organized crime and drug trafficking with the Opposition Alliance, to alter in favor of this one the electoral results of the 26 of last November.

During their recent visit to the country, members of the exploratory mission of the United Nations Organization (UN) contemplated meeting with Salvador Nasralla and Manuel Zelaya, former presidential candidate and coordinator of the Alliance, respectively, on Wednesday, but they did not attend and instead they sent a delegation. Hernandez did attend the mission on Thursday.

Hernandez was asked at the press conference today why he believed that Manuel Zelaya and Salvador Nasralla first asked for the coming of the UN to dialogue under their auspices, but when the exploratory mission came they refused to meet with their members.

The leader revealed that both had refused to meet with the mission because they already realized that, based on international conventions, the world body was going to examine "what happened in the Honduran elections with regard to the relationship with maras, gangs and organized crime "and how they participated directly to favor the Opposition Alliance with acts of intimidation.

He recalled that Honduras signed the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime since 2000 and it is on the basis of that agreement that "this issue can not be avoided".

Hernandez warned that the issue is serious: "The Honduran people know what was the role played by the gangs in this electoral process, you know it, we all know it, do not kid yourself. Either we fix this now or the thing gets complicated. "

He stressed that on February 6, last Tuesday, the White House, President Donald Trump and his Cabinet made a public session to put all their focus on the issue of combat to the MS-13 or Mara Salvatrucha, to which the Government The United States has already designated with all the legal backing of the State as a transnational criminal organization.

He warned that "being designated as a transnational criminal organization brings sanctions; has many sanctions for any natural or legal person or in this case political party or candidate who has conspired with them.

"It is a matter that is of great proportions, it has very special national and international implications," President Hernández warned.

On the other hand, Hernandez mentioned a leak of a document sent to Washington, in which the then US ambassador Charles Ford described "Mel" as a "corrupt incident".

In that sense, he indicated that the relation of the Alliance with the maras is well known, since now "Mel" Zelaya talks about organizing the famous commandos, 10,000 commandos. "Who are you going to? To the same ones who have been making the violent takeovers, to the ones who frighten people to collect rent, to charge extortion, that relationship can not be clearer ".

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Post by blindpig » Thu Feb 22, 2018 6:23 pm

US-Trained Honduras' Tigres are Hunting Down Anti-Govt Protesters
Published 21 February 2018

Against Honduran law, U.S.-trained and supported special forces agents, TIGRES, have been conducting overnight raids to arrest people.
U.S-trained Honduran military is hunting down anti-government protesters in Honduras, according to the Intercept's report published Tuesday.

Against Honduran law, U.S.-trained and supported special forces agents, TIGRES, have been conducting overnight raids to arrest people.

“They arrived at three in the morning,” a woman's whose home was recently raided and her husband arrested told the Intercept. “My kids were frightened and crying."

The Honduran Secretariat of Security said the arrests were made within the legal course and arrest warrants were issued, along with a prosecutor on spot, and were carried out within the hours allowed by the law.

Per the country's law, search warrants can only be executed between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., but ever since protests against the right-wing incumbent, Juan Orlando Hernandez's which have thrown the country in chaos, numerous cases of night-time raids by the security forces have been reported.

In protests against Hernandez, so far, nearly 35 protesters have been killed by the security forces and others, with hundreds injured, and over 1,000 detained. At least 22 people are reported to be behind bars throughout the country on protest-related charges, according to the Intercept.

According to a report by the Washington Office on Latin America, WOLA, it was revealed that operations carried out by U.S. forces like the Green Berets, the Navy SEALs, and the Army Rangers, tripled in Central America between 2007 and 2014.

The report which analysed a trove of U.S. state department documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act, FOIA request, also stated that in 2007, some 560 foreign troops were trained by 12 JCET members as part of the U.S. Joint Combined Exchange Training, with most of these operations being carried out in Latin America, including Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

Of the 21 registered training events, Honduras attended the largest numbers, occurring between 2011 and 2014, a period marked with "serious allegations levied against Honduran security forces—murder, torture, rape, and extortion—went uninvestigated and unpunished," Sarah Kinosian and Adam Isacson, who co-authored the WOLA report also said in the report.

"During JCET training, US forces in Latin America held joint military drills with local forces and taught combat skills, intelligence gathering and riot control techniques, the documents state. At the same time Americans familiarized themselves with the countries they worked in "with a minimal footprint," learning local languages, culture, and terrain," the report detailed.

"With civil affairs and psychological operations among their chief missions, their purpose is as political as it is military," the report stated. "[JCET] activities often enhance US influence in host countries."

Aside from Latin America, the United States Special Operations Command reach and influence could be found in countries such as Russia, Iran, North Korea, and China, which the Ussocom's commander, Raymond A. Thomas, justified in a 2017 statement saying they had "identified five current and enduring threats in the new National Military Strategy (NMS).

"Although constituting only 2% of the Department's budget and about 2% of its manpower, as a Combatant Command with global responsibilities, USSOCOM plays a critical role in the campaigns against each of these," Thomas added.

According to Tom Dispatch which quoted US Socom spokesman Ken McGraw, in 2017, U.S.' most elite forces conducted missions in nearly 138 countries, roughly covering 70 percent of countries in the world.

"Special Operations Forces are the main effort, or major supporting effort for US VEO-focused operations in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, across the Sahel of Africa, the Philippines, and Central/South America—essentially, everywhere Al Qaeda (AQ) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are to be found…"

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