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Empresarios hondureños buscan "importar" a paramilitares colombianos

BOGOTÁ, 13 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Empresarios hondureños han hecho llegar una oferta monetaria a paramilitares colombianos para que envíen a personal para defender fincas en el país centroamericano, según revela hoy el diario colombiano 'El Tiempo', que asegura que habrían ofrecido hasta 14.000 lempiras (unos 507 euros) mensuales por persona, más alojamiento y comida.

La oferta está expresamente dirigida a antiguos miembros de las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC), muchos de los cuales se han acogido a los planes de reinserción del Gobierno colombiano.

"Dicen que necesitan combatientes rasos", aseguró uno de los asistentes a una reunión con otros 40 ex combatientes de ultraderecha convocados para explicarles las condiciones de contratación.
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By romy on Sep 13, 2009, 18:33 in Politics & the war.

romy says on Sep 13, 2009, 18:34:

Hondurean business people are looking to bring in Colombian help...

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perezoso says on Sep 13, 2009, 18:48:

The Honduran government should be pretty upset about this.... oh, wait, Honduras doesn't have a government!

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Aji1 says on Sep 14, 2009, 05:24:

HA, be careful what u wish for

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

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dwmte7 says on Sep 14, 2009, 06:37:

john.........oddly enough, it was the radical uptight-right! it's a new twist on things to come.

patriarch

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romy says on Oct 10, 2009, 18:27:

Colombian Free Trade: Exporting Death Squads to Honduras

A breaking story -- covered in the Colombian press for about two weeks but just now being picked up by English-language news sources, including CNN -- reports that 40 members of Colombian death squads, responsible for the execution of thousands, have been recruited by Honduran plantation owners to protect their interests. In addition to the Colombian mercenaries, 120 paramilitaries from other Latin American countries "have been contracted to support the government of Roberto Micheletti," who organized the overthrow of Honduras' democratically elected president, Manuel Zelaya, on June 28.

Since then, Micheletti and his business backers have hired US lobbyists and public-relations firms, including lawyer and confidant of Hillary Clinton, Lanny Davis, to make the case to Washington that Zelaya's ouster was a democratic transfer of power.

Yet Honduras' rising body count, along with the reappearance of death squads - responsible in the 1980s for the murder and disappearances of tens of thousands of Central Americans - makes Davis's efforts increasingly difficult.

Micheletti himself may be directly involved in the importation of Colombian mercenaries. According to Bertha Oliva, the president of the respected and besieged Honduran human-rights organization, Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras, the infamous "Billy" Joya - who in the 1980s was himself a member of the Honduran death squad, Battalion 316, and now is working as Micheletti's security adviser - traveled to Bogotá, Colombia, in early September to arrange the deal which brought the mercenaries to Honduras.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-grandin/colombian-free-trade-expo_b...

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