On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 6:35 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: Just a couple of weeks back, I remember you making the argument that it is > a waste of time or worse for leftists in the US or the West more generally > to take strong positions on conflicts in foreign lands (e.g. Syria, > Ukraine) where they have no personal knowledge or stake? > > Honduras is different how? >
Thusly: "The U.S. State Department, which spends millions of taxpayer dollars a year on the Honduran National Police, has assured Congress that money only goes to specially vetted and trained units that don't operate under the direct supervision of a police chief once accused of extrajudicial killings and 'social cleansing.' "But The Associated Press has found that all police units are under the control of Director General Juan Carlos Bonilla, nicknamed the 'Tiger,' who in 2002 was accused of three extrajudicial killings and links to 11 more deaths and disappearances. He was tried on one killing and acquitted. The rest of the cases were never fully investigated." http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-aids-honduran-police-despite-death-squad-fears A bunch of numbers on US aid to the Honduran coup regime, current through the 2013 budget process, are here: http://forusa.org/sites/default/files/hondurasusmilitary2012.pdf -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."
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