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Thursday 28 April 2011 |
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Wikileaks
Reveals
Arms
Smuggling
in
Honduras
Tegucigalpa
-
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.
Such
material
was
transferred
in 1992,
as part
of U.S.
military
sales to
foreign
armies.
According
to the
report,
in April
2008, an
FAH
investigation
showed
that the
battalion
did not
know the
whereabouts
of 26
military
equipments
supplied
by the
United
States
for
training.
According
to
General
Douglas
Fraser,
head of
the U.S.
Southern
Command,
currently
Central
American
corrupt
militaries
are the
ones
responsible
for
arming
the
Mexican
cartels.
He
believes
that
part of
the
equipment
provided
by his
government
for past
wars and
conflicts
is
nowadays
smuggled
by
traffickers
throughout
the
entire
region.
The U.S.
government
also
acknowledges
that
through
the
southern
border
of
Mexico
large-bore
weapons
get into
the
nation,
weapons
that
have
been
illegally
purchased
by
organized
crime
from the
arsenals
of
armies
in
Central
America.
However,
the
Honduran
Defense
Minister
Marlon
Pascual,
says
those
responsible
for the
theft in
the
Second
Battalion
of
Infantry
are
already
behind
bars,
and will
continue
reporting
details
on the
subject.
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