1. Did the AP Catch State Department Officials Lying to Congress About Honduran Death Squads?
(Matching tags: human rights, Honduras, congress, State Department, police)

... The new article, which appeared in the New York Times and various other media over the weekend, suggests that U.S. State Department officials may have deceived members of Congress in order to illegally ...

2. Police Death Squads in Honduras Then and Now
(Matching tags: wikileaks, Honduras, State Department, police)

... year, Bonilla was chosen to lead the national police force despite unanswered questions about his past. The U.S. Congress decided to withhold State Department funding to the police while they investigated ...

3. 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 ...

4. Kerry on Latin America: More of the Same?
(Matching tags: cuba, venezuela, Honduras, Brazil, mexico, colombia, State Department, CARSI)

Senator John Kerry, President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of State, spoke for close to four hours at his Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday.  He discussed U.S. policy in the Middle East and Asia ...

5. What the Venezuelan Constitution Does, and Does Not, Say
(Matching tags: venezuela, congress, State Department)

... debate can be solved through "constitutional means,” as Venezuela’s El Universal newspaper reported. Several heads of state or other high level officials from Latin American governments will be present ...