Son of former Honduras president arrested in Haiti
Son of former Honduras president arrested in Haiti
| May 21, 2015 | Updated: May 21, 2015 6:02pm
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The Honduran government and former President Porfirio Lobo have confirmed the arrest of Lobo's son in Haiti in an apparent anti-drug operation carried out by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Haitian authorities.
A government statement Thursday said Fabio Lobo Lobo was arrested Wednesday night in Haiti and taken to New York to appear before a judge.
Porfirio Lobo said Thursday in an interview with the government's Channel 8 television that he could not say whether his son was innocent or guilty. He said he was facing a situation that he would never wish on any parent.
Lobo said he hopes his son can prove his innocence. As a father, he added, he is very hurt.
http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Son-of-former-Honduras-president-arrested-in-Haiti-6279571.php
(Short article, no more at link.)
(Once they realize he's the son of the illegitimate coup-elected president, supported by the US, they're bound to let him go.)
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and it all has been with the blessings of the U.S. Gov't, except for the time the people somehow elected a more decent President, Mel Zelaya, whom they were able to get rid of before the next election.
Regalado has a hellish profile, and he wrought savage destruction upon so many protesting, and potentially leftist Honduran people as the militarized oligarchs grabbed back the power for themselves immediately after their coup.
[center]HOW THE SOA SOWS A DEATH SQUAD,
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(1) One of the most feared death squads in all of Latin America is founded by Honduran SOA graduates with the help of Argentine neo-Nazis also from the SOA.
(2) In the 1990s, death squad criminals return to the SOA to inspire and train others.
The gory details �
"
I took) a course in intelligence at the school of the Americas (in which I saw) a lot of videos which showed the type of interrogation and torture they used in Vietnam. � Although many people refuse to accept it, all this is organized by the U.S. government." � José Valle, graduate of the SOA, admitted torturer, member of Battalion 316, Inside the School of Assassins, video
Torturing was "a job, something I did to give food to my kids" � Valle, Baltimore Sun, 6/11/95
"The intelligence unit, known as Battalion 316, used shock and suffocation as devices in interrogations. Prisoners often were kept naked and, when no longer useful, killed and buried in unmarked graves. Newly declassified documents and other sources show that the CIA and the U.S. Embassy knew of numerous crimes, including murder and torture, yet continued to support Battalion 316 and collaborate with its leaders." � Baltimore Sun, 6/11/95
Battalion 316 is founded in the early eighties by General Luis Alonso Discua�graduated from the SOA three times, in 1967, 1972, and 1982�while the nation is under the repressive dictatorship of SOA graduate General Policarpo Paz García, inducted into the SOA "Hall of Fame" in 1988. Also inducted in 1988 is General Humberto Regalado Hernández�a four-time graduate in the late sixties and seventies�who, as chief of Honduran armed forces, refuses to take action against soldiers involved in Battalion 316 death squad activity, and indeed appears to cover-up at least some of that activity. � Americas Watch reports on Honduras, 1987 and 1994
Fresh from their own "Dirty War", Argentine SOA graduates such as Colonel Mario Davico move to Honduras in the early 1980s to teach Batalion 316 techniques such as arbitrary detention, torture, extrajudicial executions, and methods of disposing of the bodies of the victims. � Americas Watch, 1994
The return �
One year after he enters the SOA Hall of Fame, fellow officers accuse Regalado Hernández of misappropriating millions of dollars in U.S. military aid. Officers contend that equipment provided through U.S. military assistance was regularly sold to unit commanders by Regalado, who then deposited the money in a "special account". Military assistance supplies sold by Regalado ranged from batteries to tires to gasoline. Meanwhile, the Reagan administration�in 1988, the year Regalado is inducted into the SOA Hall of Fame�suspects Regalado of providing protection to Colombian drug traffickers living in Honduras. Regalado's half-brother (SOA graduate Rigoberto Regalado Lara, convicted and imprisoned in the U.S. on drug trafficking charges) tells authorities that his supplier was a close friend of General Regalado Hernández. � New York Times, 10/15/89
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lormand/poli/soa/honduras.htm
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Gen. Humberto Regalado[/center]
I recall DU'er "rabs" told us years ago that long before the coup, Regalado had been involved in major league criminal enterprises. Sadly, "rabs" died, not too long ago. He traveled throughout the Americas extensively as a journalist with UPI, after he was educated there, back when UPI was a credible wire service, before Rev. Moon acquired it.
Looks as if he and his associates are so firmly entrenched in Honduras' power structure nothing can get them out.
