On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Joseph Catron <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>



Fair enough. Thanks.
-raghu.
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