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bugabuga420
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Honduras' top anti-drugs official shot and killed
#11610222 - 12/08/09 02:44 PM (14 years, 3 months ago) |
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B74W320091208
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Suspected drug hitmen on Tuesday shot and killed Honduras' top anti-drugs official who recently had warned the country was in danger of becoming a "narco-state," police said.
Julian Aristides, head of the government's drug control office, was gunned down in broad daylight in a central Tegucigalpa neighborhood.
The two gunmen, who were on a motorcycle, shot him in his car just after he had dropped his young daughter off at school, they said.
Aristides, a former army general, had held the job for six years and was a public face for the Central American country's anti-drugs efforts.
"They have declared war on us and we accept it. We are going to redouble our efforts in our fight against drug trafficking," Attorney General Luis Rubi told a news conference.
Central America countries with porous borders and weak justice systems have become a major trafficking corridor for Colombian and Mexican traffickers moving cocaine north to consumers in the United States.
"We are being invaded by drug cartels and the country is in danger," Rubi said.
Aristides had told Reuters in October that the number of planes smuggling cocaine through Honduras has surged since the United States suspended drug cooperation in the wake of an army-backed coup in June that ousted leftist President Manuel Zelaya.
The drugs chief said publicly he worried Honduras was transforming into a "narco-state."
Governments around the world denounced the coup and the United States cut $16.5 million in military aid to punish the de facto authorities.
Aristides said that in September alone, security forces found 10 drug smuggling planes abandoned on runways and remote highways compared to just four last year.
The United Nations says the Venezuelan coast is being used to traffic drugs via Honduras and almost all the planes found recently were painted with Venezuelan registrations and had Colombian pilots, Aristides said.
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ThaiTea
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Re: Honduras' top anti-drugs official shot and killed [Re: bugabuga420]
#11610235 - 12/08/09 02:47 PM (14 years, 3 months ago) |
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wtf.
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HardTrippin
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Re: Honduras' top anti-drugs official shot and killed [Re: ThaiTea]
#11610267 - 12/08/09 02:52 PM (14 years, 3 months ago) |
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shit, this doesn't help
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Unparalized
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Re: Honduras' top anti-drugs official shot and killed [Re: bugabuga420]
#11612466 - 12/08/09 07:59 PM (14 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
bugabuga420 said: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B74W320091208
Central America countries with porous borders and weak justice systems have become a major trafficking corridor for Colombian and Mexican traffickers moving cocaine north to consumers in the United States.
So yall getting that, use the war on drugs to strategize reason behind militarizing a third world country, while on the other hand keep the price on the streets high(allow just enough to get through), and in 20 years when the men in charge have exploited all they can, go to war with the military you created.
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smokescreen
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Re: Honduras' top anti-drugs official shot and killed [Re: Unparalized]
#11612741 - 12/08/09 08:29 PM (14 years, 3 months ago) |
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cartels are the product of america's "war" on drugs. Mabe they should re-think strageties. It's not working, folks. Legalize competition with militarized cartels and watch them crumble; we can all laugh at the absurditity of prohibition. Why let thugs and criminals profit from our addictions? There are issues to work out, but it's better than the status quo.
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