Another day in Mexico .
(Reuters) -
Suspected drug hitmen killed nine people in Tegucigalpa in one of the deadliest attacks in Honduras since Mexican drug kingpins escalated their war over smuggling routes, police said on Sunday.
Masked men with automatic weapons opened fire in the street in a poor area of the Honduran capital on Saturday night and then burst into two houses, killing seven men and two women, police said. Several bodies lay in the street, oozing blood, police said.
"These deaths were provoked by territorial disputes between drug traffickers," Tegucigalpa's police chief Mario Chamorro told reporters.
Since last year, drug violence has been rising in Honduras, a key transit route for Colombian cocaine heading to the United States, as powerful Mexican cartels fight over smuggling corridors through Mexico and Central America.
Some 1,600 people died in drug violence in Honduras in 2009. Honduran authorities say Mexico's top trafficker, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, is trying to crush rivals from the ruthless Gulf cartel from northeastern Mexico who are also fighting for control in Central America.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Drug gangs kill nine in Honduras as violence grows
Monday, July 13, 2009
Chavez contacted US over Honduras
Hugo Chavez trying to boss the US around. Breitbart
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has contacted the US State Department's point man on Latin America to discuss the crisis in Honduras, US officials confirmed.
Chavez called Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon late Thursday "to discuss the current situation in Honduras and the ongoing negotiations mediated by Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias," the State Department said in a statement.
The call came in the midst of San Jose-brokered talks between aides of ousted President Manuel Zelaya and interim Honduran leader Roberto Micheletti.[...]
Chavez said Friday that the negotiations, which are backed by Washington, are a "big mistake that come from the north."
The firebrand leftist leader, a top Zelaya supporter, warned that Arias receiving Micheletti amounted to a "trap" that was "very dangerous for democracy."
Friday, July 3, 2009
Zelaya accused of drug ties
This is the guy who Obama wants returned to power. Yahoo! News
BOGOTA – The regime that ousted Manuel Zelaya in Honduras claimed Tuesday that the deposed president allowed tons of cocaine to be flown into the Central American country on its way to the United States.
"Every night, three or four Venezuelan-registered planes land without the permission of appropriate authorities and bring thousands of pounds ... and packages of money that are the fruit of drug trafficking," its foreign minister, Enrique Ortez, told CNN en Espanol.
"We have proof of all of this. Neighboring governments have it. The DEA has it," he added.
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman Rusty Payne in Washington said he could neither confirm nor deny a DEA investigation.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Obama sides with Chavez and Castro
Obama has condemned the coup in Honduras as illegal, echoing Hugo Chavez and Castro. However, the military in Honduras acted within the law by ousting the socialist president.
The ousted President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, tried to extend his rule by illegally calling a referendum with ballots shipped from Chavez's Venezuela. Only the Honduras congress may call a referendum and the supreme court of Honduras ordered the military to arrest Zelaya.
Not only did President Obama condemn the action of the Honduras military, who were acting on orders of the supreme court, he tried to meddle in Honduras to try to prevent the arrest of Zelaya. It seems when it comes to meddling in the internal affairs of other countries, Obama is against freedom, liberty and democracy (see Iran).
If you didn't know what kind of a President Obama would be, now it should be crystal clear. Obama will be like the Hugo Chavez's of the world. To see what the USA USSA (Union of Socialists States of America) will look like in 4 to 8 years look no further then Venezuela.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Chavez threatens military action over Honduras coup
And now Chavez is threatening war again ! Chavez has been very quite lately , He , just like Kim Jong-il ,always looks for confrontation to get his Name in the news again !
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday put
troops on alert after a coup in Honduras and said he would respond
militarily if his envoy to the Central American country was kidnapped
or killed.
Chavez said Honduran
soldiers took away the Cuban ambassador and left the Venezuelan
ambassador on the side of a road after beating him during the army's
coup against his leftist ally, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.
The
Honduran army ousted Zelaya and exiled him in Central America's first
military coup since the Cold War, after he upset the army by trying to
win re-election.
Chavez said on
state television if his ambassador to Venezuela was killed, or if
troops entered the Venezuelan Embassy, "that military junta would be
entering a de facto state of war. We would have to act militarily ... I
have put the armed forces of Venezuela on alert."
Ecuadorean
President Rafael Correa, part of a coalition of leftist governments
headed by Chavez that includes Honduras, said he would support military
action if Ecuador's diplomats or those of its allies were threatened.
