Wikileaks Reveals Arm Smuggling in Honduras

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Tegucigalpa, Apr 28 (Prensa Latina) Grenades and light anti-tank weapons supplied by the United States to the Honduran Armed Forces (FAH) were seized from drug traffickers in Mexico and Colombia, revealed a cable published in Wikileaks.

The document stated that the Honduran army lost several types of arms, which now coincide with the serial numbers of those retrieved from the Mexican drug cartel in Ciudad Juárez, and the Colombian cartel of San Andres, in early 2008. The cable, dated Oct 2, 2008, is a report made by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) entitled "Honduras: Military Weapons Fuel Black Market in Arms ".

According to the analysis, the Division of Military Material Identification of the DIA reviewed the seized equipment, and it coincided with brands and serial numbers of a shipment (50 units) to the Second Infantry Battalion in Honduras.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. How absurd is it, asking US taxpayers to finance a vast military machine which give armaments

to a fascist government, whose military members line their pockets with big bucks selling that same death-dealing weaponry to murderous criminals who take it to Mexico? That is to say, they sell the weapons they don't need to repress the Honduran citizens who are wildly abused by the Honduran government the U.S. funds, and supports. Gotta keep some of those tax-payer-provided weapons to slaughter the suffering, unarmed, helpless Honduran people.