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July 9th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
US officials say that in late June an agent shot a suspected drug trafficker
as he reached for his gun in a holster during a raid in a remote northern
part of Honduras. That operation resulted in the seizure of 360 kilograms of
cocaine, the officials said.
A similar raid on May 11 killed four people, whom locals claimed were innocent
civilians travelling a river in Honduras at night. Honduran police said the
victims were in a boat that fired on authorities. The DEA said none of its
agents fired their guns in that incident.
The deaths come amid an aggressive new enforcement strategy that has sharply
increased the interception of illegal drug flights in Honduras, which has
become a major transshipment point for drugs heading to the United States.
The country’s remote Mosquitia region is dotted with clandestine airstrips
and a vast network of rivers for carrying drugs to the coast.
The strategy involves a special team of DEA agents who work with Honduran
police to move quickly and pursue suspicious flights, a US official has
said. Honduran and US drug agents follow flights they detect of unknown
origin and work with non-U.S. contract pilots.
While US officials laud the strategy’s successes in seizing cocaine and
arresting traffickers, it has come under fire from human rights groups.
“It is quite impressive that the DEA is directly involved in the killing
of alleged traffickers in Honduras and as it is a repeating incident it
looks like an escalation with a sense of lack of accountability and over
stepping their boundaries in Honduras. We are just getting the DEA account
of events and it looks like there is no real inquiry,” said Alex Main,
a senior associate in the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
International crackdowns in Mexico and the Caribbean have pushed drug
trafficking to Central America, which is now the crossing point for 84 per
cent of all US-bound cocaine, according to Joint Task Force-Bravo, a US
military installation in Comayagua, Honduras.
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