Honduras: Violent repression being backed by US and Canada
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<span class="date-display-single">Sun, 20/05/2012</span> </div>
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/4280">Graham Russell</a></span></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image">
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<p>There is no end in sight to violence and repression in Honduras. There is also no end in sight to the United States and Canadian governments and business maintaining political, economic and military relations with the country's military-backed regime.</p>
<p>Even after US Drug Enforcement Administration officers killed at least four Honduran civilians ― including two pregnant women ― in the name of the "drug war", two more journalists, Alfredo Villatoro and Erick Martinez Avila, have been killed in the Central American nation.</p>
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