{"id":17146,"date":"2012-11-15T12:17:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T20:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=17146"},"modified":"2012-11-15T12:27:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T20:27:02","slug":"us-backed-honduran-soldiers-chase-down-murder-innocent-teenager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/15\/us-backed-honduran-soldiers-chase-down-murder-innocent-teenager\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Backed Honduran Soldiers Chase Down, Murder Innocent Teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers in Honduras that were &#8220;trained, vetted and equipped by the U.S. government&#8221; chased down and murdered a Honduran teenager, in the latest egregious example of US-fueled human rights abuses in that country. <a href=\"http:\/\/world.time.com\/2012\/11\/14\/u-s-deplores-murder-of-honduran-teen-by-military\/\">Associated Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ebed Yanes, 15, was killed the night of May 26 after driving through a military checkpoint. His father, Wilfredo Yanes, a mild-mannered organic food supplier, tracked down the soldiers, eventually uncovering an allegedly high-level attempt to hide evidence. Further, his quest led to new information reported this week that the unit in question was supported by the U.S.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Obama administration has slowly increased its interventionism in Honduras since the military coup took place in 2009. The US-backed regime&#8217;s record on human rights has worsened in that time as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince early 2010,&#8221; writes Dana Frank in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/138188\/dana-frank\/honduras-gone-wrong?page=show#\">a piece<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<em>Foreign Affairs,<\/em>\u00a0&#8220;there have been more than 10,000 complaints of human rights abuses by [US funded and trained] state security forces,\u201d and \u201cin many ways, Washington is responsible for this dismal turn.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The situation brings back haunting memories of other U.S. involvements in Latin America. Washington has a dark track record of supporting military coups against democratic governments and then funneling money to repressive regimes. In 1964, the United States backed a military coup in Brazil; in 1973, it supported a military coup headed by Augusto Pinochet in Chile; and during the 1980s, it threw millions of dollars at the leaders in El Salvador. All of these U.S.\u2013backed governments ruled with enormous brutality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/08\/promoting-stability-in-honduras-with-insidious-parallels-to-terrorism\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/25\/dea-kills-another-honduran\/\">here<\/a> for more of the background on US policy towards Honduras lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers in Honduras that were &#8220;trained, vetted and equipped by the U.S. government&#8221; chased down and murdered a Honduran teenager, in the latest egregious example of US-fueled human rights abuses in that country. Associated Press: Ebed Yanes, 15, was killed the night of May 26 after driving through a military checkpoint. 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