"Tigres" Are Honduras' New Battalion 3-16

[Judi Lynn]

"Tigres" Are Honduras' New Battalion 3-16
Wednesday, 01 August 2012 12:01

The President of the National Congress’ electoral haste and the US State Department’s hegemonic willfulness are resulting in deplorable decisions being made in Honduras.

We are facing an evil alliance between Juan Orlando Hernandez’s political interests and the Pentagon’s geostrategic plans, coordinated by the US Embassy on Tegucigalpa’s Los Proceres Avenue. In other words, we are suffering from the United States’ disgraceful exploitation of the institutional malnutrition suffered by the Honduran state since the 2009 coup.

For example, the creation of the Intelligence Troop and Special Security Response Groups (Spanish acronym TIGRES, meaning ‘tiger’) is a monster spawned by this evil alliance, which is already operating in other countries of the world under the auspices of the Southern Command and the Marine Corps.

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In reality, it is a package of seemingly legal measures, “a la Honduran”, that permits the US Southern Command, the DEA, the CIA and, in short, the Pentagon, to take complete control of Honduras’ territory and population.

More:
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/3791-qtigresq-are-honduras-new-battalion-3-16

[Judi Lynn]

1. Honduran President Puts “Tigers” Police Force on the Streets

Honduran President Puts “Tigers” Police Force on the Streets

Written by Thelma Mejía
Tuesday, 07 August 2012 07:45

TEGUCIGALPA, Aug 7 2012 (IPS) - The Honduran government’s plan to create a new rapid response police force, as part of a strategy to militarise the fight against crime, is dangerously vague, experts say.

The creation of the elite “Intelligence and Special Security Response Groups Unit” (whose acronym is Tigres, which means “tigers”) would undermine the process of demilitarisation of society that got underway in this impoverished, crime-ridden Central American nation 15 years ago.

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Flores, a university professor who specialises in security issues, said the greatest shortcoming in the proposal was that it “explicitly states that the police forces are incapable” of doing their job, and grants the military “a prominent role in matters that are not of their concern, blurring the boundaries between the functions of security and defence.”

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“This is not at all a force parallel to the police or the army. What we want is a rapid response team to tackle the insecurity in our country. Regardless of whether they like it, it will strengthen the response capacity to crime, because the Tigres will attack everything,” he said.

More:
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/3802-honduran-president-puts-tigers-police-force-on-the-streets