Current Situations in the Honduran Mosquitia and the North Coast and Bay Islands Raise Interesting Legal questions.
By Wendy Griffin 4/24/2015
My sister Pam Lawrence who is an investment banker for Morgan Stanley here in Atlanta was telling me that the US government is very strict now about following money between the US and Third World countries with issues of terrorism or drug traffcking and they are following the money.
By Wendy Griffin 4/24/2015
My sister Pam Lawrence who is an investment banker for Morgan Stanley here in Atlanta was telling me that the US government is very strict now about following money between the US and Third World countries with issues of terrorism or drug traffcking and they are following the money.
If this is true how can the World Bank IFC division give $30 million dollars in loans directly to Miguel Facusse's Corporación Dinant and more through IDA's one third equity position in Banco Ficohsa, Honduran bank with a Palestian Arab owner whose president, a woman, who is also head of the Latin American Businessmen's Association? Miguel Facusse's private airport at Punta Farrollones near Limon, Honduras see the Honduran government's official ZEDE or Model Cities map at www.zede.gob.hn to see it is linked to drug trafficking by two high level and public documents. One is a Wikileaks document, from 2009 I believe, about a burnt out drug airplane on his land which the US government went and investiated while he was believed to be on the land.
The other is a Garífuna of Limon complaint about Miguel Facusse being a known drug traffciker which is part of the official ethics review of the Department of Defense Minerva funding-University of Kansas, UPN in Honduras, Foreign Affairs Office of fort Leavenworth, Joint Task forcé Bravo/Southcom/American Geography Society mapping exercise known as Centroamérica Indigena which is taking place in ZEDE or Model City Sico Paulaya inside the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve.
The Honduran government is currently in Washington, DC asking for money to explore for the site, and I would lay even money to put in the highway to take tourists from the cruise boat dock at Trujillo to the Ciudad Blanca and from ZEDE Santa Maria del Real to the Ciudad Blanca and the copper mine at Manto to the port at Trujillo Puerto Castilla which had been on the Honduran government's ZEDE map of Sico Paulaya but was taken down as it does not yet exist and would confuse potentional investors. This highway is illegal under current Honduran law because of SINAPH (Sistema Nacional de Areas Protegidasde Honduras), but will not be ilegal under the law in Model Cities or ZEDE. Dr. Susan Macneil at the University of Kansas has been sleeping on this ethics review for a year where I ask such questions such as why is US Department of Defense funding being used to provide maps on the Internet of known drug trafficker airports, such as the one at Rayaka, or the one at Las Marias in the heart of the Rio Platano Bisophere, also illegal, where they are probably stealing the artifacts of the Ciudad Blanca before the archaoelogists come in. At least 3 illicit drug airports in the Sico Paulaya valley are shown and also the illegal drug airport of Los Cachiros drug kingpin family at Sangrelaya (also a Garífuna community) on the Honduran government's official ZEDE maps of ZEDE Sico Paulaya.
The Honduran government is currently in Washington, DC asking for money to explore for the site, and I would lay even money to put in the highway to take tourists from the cruise boat dock at Trujillo to the Ciudad Blanca and from ZEDE Santa Maria del Real to the Ciudad Blanca and the copper mine at Manto to the port at Trujillo Puerto Castilla which had been on the Honduran government's ZEDE map of Sico Paulaya but was taken down as it does not yet exist and would confuse potentional investors. This highway is illegal under current Honduran law because of SINAPH (Sistema Nacional de Areas Protegidasde Honduras), but will not be ilegal under the law in Model Cities or ZEDE. Dr. Susan Macneil at the University of Kansas has been sleeping on this ethics review for a year where I ask such questions such as why is US Department of Defense funding being used to provide maps on the Internet of known drug trafficker airports, such as the one at Rayaka, or the one at Las Marias in the heart of the Rio Platano Bisophere, also illegal, where they are probably stealing the artifacts of the Ciudad Blanca before the archaoelogists come in. At least 3 illicit drug airports in the Sico Paulaya valley are shown and also the illegal drug airport of Los Cachiros drug kingpin family at Sangrelaya (also a Garífuna community) on the Honduran government's official ZEDE maps of ZEDE Sico Paulaya.
The mapping of ZEDE Sico Paulaya by the US Department of Defense and the University of Kansas will not be used to give land titles to Miskitos and Garífunas or the Pech of Culmi and Las Marias as none of their county or "municipio" land offices have electricity in the affected counties of Iriona, Brus laguna, Walumagu, and Culmi. Culmi is a center of marijuana growing while this área of the Mosquitia has cocaine and liguid heroin drug airports among the African palms and the cattle ranches, and the new highway would improve the transportation of these high profit ítems. The original mapping exercises of the savannas of the Honduran mosquitia paied for by the Office of Naval Research (which did not include the sea) is what led to contra airfields for cocaine transhipment, which also had a stop in Trujillo at the Oliver north airport which had been unpaved prior to Iran Contra. How many Young blacks and hispanics have lost their lives due to that funding stream is incalculable.
The airport at Las Marias, Gracias a Dios violates the Honduran SINAPH (National System of protected Areas) law, which is available for sale on the Internet. However, the US Navy Base (Tarea Conjunta Bravo or Joint Task Force Bravo's forward operating base in the Honduran Mosquitia) on the Caratasca Lagoon, also in a protected área, so it is also in violation of the Hondura's SINAPH law's prohibition of not having infrastructure projects in Honduran protected áreas. The same is probably true of the US Navy base on Guanaja, Bay Islands Honduras, most of the island and its surrounding waters are protected áreas, another forward operating base of the US. Both US bases are in violation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty of 1850 between the US and Great Britain which prohibits either Great Britain or the US from having fortified positions in Central America. A Honduran military person confirms the presence of the US military base at Caratasca, in a Realnews.com video which also shows the signs for Tarea Conjunta Bravo (Joint Task Force Bravo).
This also brings up interesting questions of the US presence at Soto Cano airbase generally known as Palmerola, outside of Comayagua, Honduras and why Palmerola is proposed as its own ZEDE or Model City, and who will control that airport capable of receiving C-5A aircrafts if Model Cities go through and for what purposes given the use of most of the other airstrips in Honduras that connect to the North Coast highway (known locally as the road of death)? Honduras recieves about 70% of the cocaine and liquid heroin that is produced in South America on its way north, to markets in the US and Canada, according to a full page ad in El Heraldo newspaper last year.
Joint Task Force Bravo, Southcom, and the DoD Minerva funding and the Offices of Naval investigation and Office of Naval Research all have interesting websites. I recommend them. I recommend noting that Joint Task Bravo has J 1 Intelligence (we are spying on the Hondurans our hosts) in English, but this disappears in the Spanish translation of the website. They do not include where all of Joint Task Bravo's bases are in Honduras, nor do they acknowledge the Colomapa El Salvador naval base. Ecuador threw the US military out of there for spying on them.
If the US was sincerely interesting in stopping the flow of drugs through Honduras they should increase rather than decrease the money going to drug use prevention and alternative ways of making money for poor people in the US, as has been happening as I know as I was a grant proposal writer for at risk youth programs in Pittsburgh. The Honduran president has repeatedly noted a double standard about drugs from the US saying that in the US it is a question of health, and in Honduras Honduran people are dying over the issues related to getting it to the US consumers. Over 70% of deaths in Honduras are somehow related to the drug trafficking just going through the country. Honduran drug traffickers are just middle men getting the drugs through the country, or letting them use their cattle ranches or african palm plantations or resorts to transport by land, by wáter, and by air the drugs of choice. And now the Honduran government's own Zede website has amazing multilayered maps with every road, stream, community, etc. They did take off the percentage of delinquency finally off of the charts. My respects to their webdesigners and cartographers.
I told any Hondurans who would listen last year, when I was there in Honduras, that maybe without millions in World Bank funding and millions in US military assistance helping the known drug traffickers operating in Honduras, maybe Honduras would be able to do something about its problems, but with this type of friendly funding, which violates Honduras, US and International laws, who needs enemies?
The airport at Las Marias, Gracias a Dios violates the Honduran SINAPH (National System of protected Areas) law, which is available for sale on the Internet. However, the US Navy Base (Tarea Conjunta Bravo or Joint Task Force Bravo's forward operating base in the Honduran Mosquitia) on the Caratasca Lagoon, also in a protected área, so it is also in violation of the Hondura's SINAPH law's prohibition of not having infrastructure projects in Honduran protected áreas. The same is probably true of the US Navy base on Guanaja, Bay Islands Honduras, most of the island and its surrounding waters are protected áreas, another forward operating base of the US. Both US bases are in violation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty of 1850 between the US and Great Britain which prohibits either Great Britain or the US from having fortified positions in Central America. A Honduran military person confirms the presence of the US military base at Caratasca, in a Realnews.com video which also shows the signs for Tarea Conjunta Bravo (Joint Task Force Bravo).
This also brings up interesting questions of the US presence at Soto Cano airbase generally known as Palmerola, outside of Comayagua, Honduras and why Palmerola is proposed as its own ZEDE or Model City, and who will control that airport capable of receiving C-5A aircrafts if Model Cities go through and for what purposes given the use of most of the other airstrips in Honduras that connect to the North Coast highway (known locally as the road of death)? Honduras recieves about 70% of the cocaine and liquid heroin that is produced in South America on its way north, to markets in the US and Canada, according to a full page ad in El Heraldo newspaper last year.
Joint Task Force Bravo, Southcom, and the DoD Minerva funding and the Offices of Naval investigation and Office of Naval Research all have interesting websites. I recommend them. I recommend noting that Joint Task Bravo has J 1 Intelligence (we are spying on the Hondurans our hosts) in English, but this disappears in the Spanish translation of the website. They do not include where all of Joint Task Bravo's bases are in Honduras, nor do they acknowledge the Colomapa El Salvador naval base. Ecuador threw the US military out of there for spying on them.
If the US was sincerely interesting in stopping the flow of drugs through Honduras they should increase rather than decrease the money going to drug use prevention and alternative ways of making money for poor people in the US, as has been happening as I know as I was a grant proposal writer for at risk youth programs in Pittsburgh. The Honduran president has repeatedly noted a double standard about drugs from the US saying that in the US it is a question of health, and in Honduras Honduran people are dying over the issues related to getting it to the US consumers. Over 70% of deaths in Honduras are somehow related to the drug trafficking just going through the country. Honduran drug traffickers are just middle men getting the drugs through the country, or letting them use their cattle ranches or african palm plantations or resorts to transport by land, by wáter, and by air the drugs of choice. And now the Honduran government's own Zede website has amazing multilayered maps with every road, stream, community, etc. They did take off the percentage of delinquency finally off of the charts. My respects to their webdesigners and cartographers.
I told any Hondurans who would listen last year, when I was there in Honduras, that maybe without millions in World Bank funding and millions in US military assistance helping the known drug traffickers operating in Honduras, maybe Honduras would be able to do something about its problems, but with this type of friendly funding, which violates Honduras, US and International laws, who needs enemies?
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