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Honduras And Drugs
IBD Editorials ^ | July 2, 2009

Posted on 07/02/2009 5:34:26 PM PDT by Kaslin

The Hemisphere: A Honduran official has warned that deposed President Mel Zelaya was in league with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to ship drugs to the U.S. If true, can this really be the man the U.S. wants back in power?


Foreign Minister Enrique Ortez dropped a bombshell last week when he said Zelaya, the president who was thrown out by a constitutional process June 28 after defying the law, had a little side business with the Caracas caudillo allowing cocaine to roll into Honduras from Venezuela before heading to the U.S.

"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," Ortez told CNN En Espanol. "We have proof of all of this. Neighboring governments have it. The DEA has it."

If Ortiz is right, the U.S. effort to restore Zelaya to power would be suicidal for U.S. efforts to destroy drug organizations south of our border. It would undercut Mexico's and Colombia's savage drug wars and give drug lords such as the Sinaloa cartel's Shorty Guzman, who has bases in Honduras, reason to strengthen operations.

It also means the U.S. must start asking questions about Chavez's role in the drug trade now that U.S.-Venezuelan diplomatic ties are being restored. Right now, it's such a hot potato that nobody in either the State Department or the Drug Enforcement Administration wants to comment on it.

Zelaya's return would put the U.S. in a dilemma. The U.S. has gone along with the Chavez-led global consensus denouncing Zelaya's exit as a coup d'etat and condemning the current Honduran government. But that position means the U.S. would have to cut off a $43 million aid package to Honduras that includes drug-fighting.

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TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: communism; drugs; honduras; hugochavez

1 posted on 07/02/2009 5:34:26 PM PDT by Kaslin
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2 posted on 07/02/2009 5:35:47 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for 0bama: One Bad Ass Mistake America)
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PLEASE FREEP MAIL ME IF YOU WANT TO TO BE ON MY IBD EDITORIALS PING LIST

3 posted on 07/02/2009 5:36:24 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for 0bama: One Bad Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

It also means we need to start asking questions of our government and the globalists who seem desperate to put Zelaya back in power.


4 posted on 07/02/2009 5:40:07 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Kaslin
A Honduran official has warned that deposed President Mel Zelaya was in league with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to ship drugs to the U.S. If true, can this really be the man the U.S. wants back in power?

Why do you think they're so desperate to get him back in power?

It's pretty obvious at this point that the government is being run by crackheads...

5 posted on 07/02/2009 5:41:13 PM PDT by Technogeeb (The only good Russian is a dead Russian. Rest in Peace, Solzhenitsyn.)
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To: Kaslin

I’m tellin you.... follow the money!... There is a very good reason Obama is all ticked off over this situation!
It stinks bad.


6 posted on 07/02/2009 5:42:21 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: Kaslin

Could be the reason obama is backing the communist
Big money. We still don’t know who was behind the maassive foreign campaign donations to obama
Or why


7 posted on 07/02/2009 5:45:46 PM PDT by silverleaf ("Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal ( Martin Luther King))
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To: Kaslin

Now this is interesting...


8 posted on 07/02/2009 5:47:51 PM PDT by theDentist (qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: Kaslin

Obama and drugs....


9 posted on 07/02/2009 5:55:15 PM PDT by EverOnward
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To: Technogeeb
It's pretty obvious at this point that the government is being run by crackheads...

Our government or the Honduran government? And which congress critter oversees this $43 million package?

10 posted on 07/02/2009 6:06:51 PM PDT by AH_LiveRight
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To: silverleaf; Kaslin

Obama is quietly working towards legalizing drugs because he thinks it would bring in huge revenues to the government, not to mention supporting the economies of many dictatorships, ranging from Venezuela to the Taliban regions. He recently announced that we were going to stop our poppy eradication program in Afghanistan - I guess it was getting in the way of the Taliban/Al Qaeda heroin trade.

Finding that Zelaya was involved in the drug trade probably made him seem even more attractive to Bambi.


11 posted on 07/02/2009 6:12:22 PM PDT by livius
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To: silverleaf

Chicago likes a good drug source, and if Chavez, via Honduras, can provide it, well? Obama doesn’t give much of a sh!+ about anything but himself and his Chicago henchmen. so naturally, he’s going to back the leftist wimp who does deals.


12 posted on 07/02/2009 6:38:27 PM PDT by mathurine
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To: EverOnward

“Obama and drugs....”
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Gee Whiz, it’s a good thing Barry quit(?) the blow ...cause Axeldolf would have to pay full price on the street for their fixes now.

Is Obama channeling Adolf Hitler?
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/adolf_hitler.html

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
Adolf Hitler

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
Adolf Hitler

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
Adolf Hitler

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitler


13 posted on 07/02/2009 6:40:54 PM PDT by Curious George1978
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To: EverOnward

Once a crackhead, always a crackhead!

Communists are mentally ill. Crackhead Marxists even more so!


14 posted on 07/02/2009 6:51:46 PM PDT by texican01
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To: texican01

“Once a crackhead, always a crackhead!

Communists are mentally ill. Crackhead Marxists even more so!”
_________________________________________

Gay Crackhead... “Hitler-like” types are very dangerous too. :-)


15 posted on 07/02/2009 7:57:10 PM PDT by Curious George1978
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To: Kaslin
It also means the U.S. must start asking questions about Chavez's role in the drug trade now that U.S.-Venezuelan diplomatic ties are being restored.

It seems to me someone needs to ask 0blow some questions about his role since he's restoring relations with Chavez, calling for Zelaya's re-installment and slapped Columbia in the face on that trade agreement. He seems to want to deal with the bad guys and insult the good ones.

16 posted on 07/02/2009 10:54:46 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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