1. Administration Rejects Congressional Request for Investigation of Ahuas Killings Despite Evidence of DEA Role
(Matching tags: Honduras, DEA)

... of four Honduran indigenous villagers in Ahuas, Honduras during a counternarcotics operation that involved agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).  The letter, signed by 58 House representatives, ...

2. Fifty-eight Members of Congress ask for investigation of Honduras killings and policy review – will Kerry and Holder act?
(Matching tags: Honduras, DEA, Garifuna, congress, State Department)

On January 30th, incoming Secretary of State John Kerry and Attorney General Eric Holder received a letter from fifty-eight members of Congress asking for a U.S. investigation into a DEA-led counter-narcotics ...

3. Honduras’ Violent “Hot Spots” Help Propel Homicides to a New Record High
(Matching tags: coup, Honduras, Facusse, DEA)

... covering them have been targeted with death threats, shut downs, and arrests.  ...

4. May 11 Shooting Incident in Ahuas, Honduras: Honduran Agents Say the DEA Was in Charge
(Matching tags: Honduras, DEA)

It didn’t receive much attention in the international media, but an important report on the May 11 DEA-related shooting incident in Ahuas, Honduras, which killed four people and injured several others, ...

5. Honduran Officials’ Report on DEA-Related Shooting Departs from Evidence
(Matching tags: Honduras, DEA)

... on May 11, when four people were shot and killed and four others wounded in a joint U.S. DEA-Honduran counternarcotics operation in the Moskitia region of Honduras, and was co-authored by CEPR’s Alex Main ...