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Honduras: Zelaya accused of drug ties - AP

Julio 2, 2009

manuel-zelaya.jpgThe regime that ousted Manuel Zelaya in Honduras claimed Tuesday that the deposed president allowed tons of cocaine to be flown into the Central American country on its way to the United States.

“Every night, three or four Venezuelan-registered planes land without the permission of appropriate authorities and bring thousands of pounds … and packages of money that are the fruit of drug trafficking,” its foreign minister, Enrique Ortez, told CNN en Espanol.

“We have proof of all of this. Neighboring governments have it. The DEA has it,” he added.

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman Rusty Payne in Washington said he could neither confirm nor deny a DEA investigation.
Zelaya was traveling from New York to Washington and could not immediately be reached to respond to the allegations.

Honduras and other Central American nations have become major transshipment points in recent years for Colombian cocaine, particularly as Mexico’s government cracks down on cartels.

The drugs arrive in Honduras on non-commercial aircraft from Venezuela and increasingly in speedboats from Colombia, according to the Key West, Florida-based Joint Interagency Task Force-South, which coordinates drug interdiction in region.
In its most recent report on the illicit narcotics trade, the U.S. State Department said in February of Honduras that “official corruption continues to be an impediment to effective law enforcement and there are press reports of drug trafficking and associated criminal activity among current and former government and military officials.”

The report did not name names.

Drug-related violence appears to be up in Honduras.
Homicides surged 25 percent from some 4,400 in 2007 to more than 7,000 in 2008 while more than 1,600 people were killed execution-style, suggesting drug gang involvement, according to the Central American Violence Observatory.
In October, Zelaya proposed legalizing drug use as a way of reducing the violence, and doubling the country’s police force, which reached 13,500 last year, up from 7,000 in 2005, according to the State Department report.

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2 comentarios para “Honduras: Zelaya accused of drug ties - AP”

  1. Basilicio Perez on Julio 2nd, 2009 10:05

    The group of ALBA is well known for supporting the narco- terrorist of Colombia and it is not strange that Mr. Zelaya could be involved in this kind of business, that is giving so many millions of dollars to the group mentioned. The leftist millionaires are trying to get money whatever way they can and they don’t care about the results.Watch out Honduras with the sucker Zelaya.

  2. Flavio Rivera Montealegre on Julio 3rd, 2009 6:40

    Está claro que el Sr. Secretario General de la OEA, se ha convertido en cómplice de un testaferro del narcotráfico internacional, y con ello, también involucra como cómplices a la OEA. Las naciones europeas que retiraron a sus embajadores en Honduras, le han dado un rotundo respaldo al narcotráfico internacional, aprobando con ello, que esas mafias politiqueras envenenen a las nuevas generaciones con las drogas, y, con ello, han empeñado el futuro del mundo occidental, que se ve amenazado por todos lados, desde las mafias internacionales del narcotráfico hasta el fanatismo religioso de los sectores que manipulan los principios religiosos de Mahoma, con el único fin de llegar al poder y someter a la humanidad a un estado de esclavitud. Que los pueblos abran bien los ojos, que distingan muy claramente lo que es UN POLITICO y lo que es UN MAFIOSO, son dos cosas totalmente opuestas. Les recuerdo que ya no estamos en un mundo divido entre COMUNISMO o CAPITALISMO/DEMOCRACIA, el mundo que vivimos actualmente se encuentra en la disyuntiva de ser controlado por POLITICOS VS. MAFIOSOS.
    No importa si esos mafiosos se ponen un traje de “socialistas del siglo XXI” o si se ponen un disfraz de “defensores de la democracia”, o bien, como es el caso de los Castro en Cuba o del bachiller Ortega en Nicaragua, que se cuelgan del discurso ya trillado de ser los “defensores de los pobres”.
    Los pueblos deben abrir muy bien todos los sentidos para no dejarse engañar por estas pandillas de mafiosos infiltrados en los partidos politicos.
    Les saluda
    Flavio Rivera Montealegre

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