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...traffickers is Honduras. Its location, only a few hours' flying time from Florida, and its many secluded airstrips make Honduras an ideal transit point. Last November a shipment of mahogany boards arriving in Florida from Honduras was packed with 8,052 lbs. of cocaine. A few days later the Honduran military attache in Colombia, Colonel William Said Speer, was linked to traffickers when Cartel Member Ochoa was arrested while driving Said's $80,000 sports car in Colombia. "The upper echelon of our military has been corrupted," charges a Honduran official...
...Colombian imprint deepened when Ramon Matta Ballesteros, a Honduran drug dealer, returned from Colombia in 1986 and settled in the capital city of Tegucigalpa. Matta, who has been described as a chief contact between the Medellin suppliers and Mexican smugglers, is wanted by the DEA in connection with the 1985 murder in Mexico of DEA Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar. In Honduras, which does not allow extradition, Matta is living the good life, flamboyantly dispensing money to the poor who line up outside his palatial estate. His assets are said to amount to more than $1 billion; he reportedly paid...
...United States has funneled more than $200million to the rebels since their guerrilla warbegan in 1981. Stockpiled weapons and othersupplies continue to be airdropped to the contrasby the CIA, operating from Honduran bases...
...relatively small. But the histories of the four who vanished there satisfied the OAS's requirements for hearing such cases, including that the petitioners must have exhausted all other avenues of recourse. Moreover, Honduras is one of the few countries that accept the court's jurisdiction. Last week Honduran President Jose Azcona Hoyo pledged to accept whatever verdict the court reaches...
...bodies of death-squad victims are seldom found, little prima facie evidence exists. The court has thus had to rely on the testimony of those who have brushed up against the death squads. Their willingness to cooperate has already produced tragic results. A human-rights official and a former Honduran army sergeant have been killed in the past three weeks. Many Hondurans believe they were silenced by death squads...