Colombia exporting paramilitaries to Honduras: El Tiempo

[Judi Lynn]

EFerrari, referring to a remark you made fairly recently about these guys, I just stumbled across this article from a year ago, which is substantially later than the ones we saw coming out around the time of the coup. I'll be keeping a lookout for more on the subject:

Colombia exporting paramilitaries to Honduras: El Tiempo
Monday, 14 September 2009 10:53 Javier Emilio Valencia

Colombian illegal armed groups are recruiting demobilized paramilitaries to work as mercenaries in Honduras, several Colombian media reported Monday.

According to newspaper El Tiempo, some Honduran business people are hiring Colombian former paramilitaries to strengthen their security against urban gangs.

According to the news report the drafting is taking place in ‘El Japon’, an estate seized from a drug trafficker by antinarcotics authorities in the Magdalena Medio valley. The report says some demobilized paramilitary lieutenants are engaging former paramilitary combatants of the disarmed paramilitary organization AUC to serve as security personnel in Honduras.

Colombian police say ‘Los Rastrojos’, the drug gang that inherited the drug trade from the Norte del Valle cartel, was reported recruiting demobilized paramilitaries in the vicinity of ‘El Japon’, where the alleged recruitment of mercenaries would be taking place.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/5900-colombia-exports-paramilitaries-to-honduras.html

[rabs]

1. Remember reading about the paras in Honduras

found this Guardian article written while the pot was boiling still in Honduras and before lobito was "elected."

Remember reading in article below that former members of the AUC were being hired by wealthy Honduran landowners and business types for "protection."

At the time thought that maybe Hillary had forgotten (or ignored) the fact that her own State Department classifies the "demobilized" AUC as a terrorist organization.

If the Colombian paras are still in Honduras, that could explain why so many labor, teacher and opposition leaders have been killed since the lobo government took over. lobito may have no control over the paras who honed their killing skills in Colombia. lobito also may have no control over the people who hired the paras.

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Honduran landowners have reportedly hired former Colombian paramilitaries as mercenaries to protect them against possible violence stemming from government tensions, a UN panel said today.

The UN working group on mercenaries said that it has received reports that some 40 former members of United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia, or AUC. The US government classifies the AUC as a terrorist organisation.

They will protect properties and individuals "from further violence between supporters of the de facto government and those of the deposed President Manuel Zelaya," it said.

Separately, a 120-person group of paramilitaries from several countries in that region was reportedly created to support the coup in Honduras, the panel said.

More

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/09/honduras-colombia-auc-landowners

[Judi Lynn]

2. Very interesting learning that the police also bonded with mercenaries in their harrassment

of President Zelaya in the Brazilian Embassy. Very, very interesting.

Of course we all remember that the coup plotters brought Billy Joya back to Honduras who had been the leader of the notorious murderous Battalion. Clearly a piece of garbage like that would be right at home with the "headcutters."

Interesting considering the US pretends to view the Colombian death squad degenerates as "terrorists," and doesn't have much to say when they showed up in Honduras, as you mentioned.