Honduras deploys soldiers on anti-crime patrols

[Judi Lynn]

Honduras deploys soldiers on anti-crime patrols
– 1 hr 50 mins ago

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – The Honduran government has deployed soldiers to perform anti-crime patrols in some of the Central American country's most violent cities, following the massacre of 18 people in a shoe factory this week.

Security Minister Oscar Alvarez says police have identified two suspects among the five attackers in the factory shooting, which authorities believe resulted from rivalry between street gangs.

Alvarez said Thursday the suspects are in hiding and have not been apprehended.

Alvarez did not specify the number of soldiers assigned to anti-crime duties, but said they will help police patrol and search for weapons and drugs.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Honduran Repression Continues Unabated

Honduran Repression Continues Unabated
Honduras is one of the most dangerous countries anywhere for those speaking openly about government corruption, human rights abuses, and despotism.
by Stephen Lendman
Monday, 6 September 2010

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Honduras' class struggle persists in the hemisphere's second poorest
country after Haiti, committed to end decades of repression,
injustice and poverty. A growing problem throughout most of the
world of dark interests wanting more wealth and power at the expense
of easily exploitable people.

For Hondurans, the event marked a new beginning, not an end to their dark history. Widespread killings and human rights abuses followed and a sham November election, installing Porfirio (Pepe) Lobo Sosa president, a US-friendly stooge heading a fascist regime. The nation's military is firmly in control against popular resistance, street violence and death squad terror its repressive tools. The Obama administrative stands firmly supportive. It blessed the coup, the new government and provides aid, all for hardline rule, none for popular needs.

Activists and journalists are especially threatened. Honduras is one of the most dangerous countries anywhere for those speaking openly about government corruption, human rights abuses, and despotism, the latest casualty - Radio Internacional reporter Zelaya Diaz, shot dead on August 24 along a rural San Pedro Sula road. According to press reports, he died from two bullet wounds to the head, another in his chest. Like similar past incidents, an investigation, if it occurs, will be whitewashed. No one will be held accountable.

Though not openly threatened, an earlier suspicious fire damaged Diaz's home, a message perhaps demanding he stop reporting on politics and crime. Since March alone, eight journalists have been killed, a disturbing pattern against others stepping too close to honest reporting about what Hondurans most need to know - the truth about their corrupted, brutal regime.

Despite the UN General Assembly's June 30, 2009 condemnation of the coup "by acclimation," 90 nations have now restored diplomatic ties, normalizing relations after the October 30 Tegucigalpa-Jose Accord (the unfulfilled agreement to form a National Unity/ Reconciliation Government) and Lobo's election - business as usual triumphing over the rule of law and democratic freedoms, Washington always in the lead, pressuring others to go along.

More:
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2010/090610Lendman.shtml

[naaman fletcher]

2. it's stunnig to me that Obama supports this guy. nt.