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  • Government won't probe of DEA raid in Honduras

    Despite pleas from liberal lawmakers on Capitol Hill, the State and Justice departments have no intention of investigating purported human-rights violations and misconduct by Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Honduras, The Washington Times has learned.

  • **FILE** Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. speaks July 26, 2012, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

    House Democrats seek probe of DEA role in lethal Honduras raid

    A group of House Democrats is calling on the State and Justice Departments to investigate the possible involvement of Drug Enforcement Administration agents in the murder last May of four villagers in Honduras.

  • Blanca Flores, wife of dead inmate Oscar Soto, cries outside the prison in Comayagua, Honduras, on Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012. A fire started by an inmate late Tuesday tore through the prison, killing 358 inmates, said Supreme Court Justice Richard Ordonez, who is leading the investigation. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

    Report: Most Honduras fire inmates were awaiting trial

    The prisoners whose scorched bodies were carried out piece by piece Thursday morning from a charred Honduran prison had been locked inside an overcrowded penitentiary where most inmates had never been charged, let alone convicted, according to an internal Honduran government report obtained by the Associated Press.

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Support of Zelaya is un-American

    The June 2009 Honduran Supreme Court order to arrest then-president Manuel Zelaya in accordance with the Honduran constitution was a blow to international socialism. President Obama, who seems to share Mr. Zelaya's socialist ideology, decided to support the corrupt, leftist leader of Honduras and unjustly take action on his behalf.

  • **FILE** Manuel Zelaya (Associated Press)

    Embassy Row

    A secret cable from the U.S. Embassy in Honduras described former President Manuel Zelaya as a corrupt politician with links to organized crime a year before President Obama rushed to his defense after the Honduran Congress and courts removed Mr. Zelaya from office and created a diplomatic crisis in the Western Hemisphere.

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