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CRIMINAL JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATES
17 June 2010 Washington, D.C. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Special points of inter- HONDURAS
est:
U.S. DEA ON THE DEA Caribbean Corridor
DRUG OFFENSIVE 1 Strike Force (CCSF) agents,
working jointly with DEA
VENEZUELAS
CHAVEZ LOOKS
New York OCDETF agents
AFTER OUSTED and U.S. Coast Guard person-
HONDURAN PRESI- nel, arrested last Friday five
DENT 1 suspected Honduran smug-
RUSSIA OFFERS glers and seized 66 bales of
cocaine in San Juan, Puerto
VENEZUELA IRANS
MISSILES 1 Rico following an at-sea in-
terdiction of the fishing ves-
HONDURAN POLICE
sel Two Brothers.
COMMISSIONERS
MURDER LINKED TO
HIS DRUG INTER- The 87-foot, Panamanian
DICTION EFFORTS 1
flagged, fishing vessel was
carrying 3,269 pounds of
cocaine with an estimated
wholesale value of approxi-
mately $46 million.
These arrests and multi-
kilogram seizure are a clear
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the Caribbean Corridor Strike Mejia Gutierrez and two entities,
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Force Initiative, said Rosa Mega Empacadora de Frutas, S.A.
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Attorney for the District of
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Former Honduran President
http://www.mexidata.info/ Manuel Zelaya who was
ousted by the Honduran gov-
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ernment for sponsoring a
referendum that was ruled
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section of the strategic alli-
ance with the Dominican
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Refinery and Venezuelan
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pany PDVSA. Zelaya was
believed to have morphed
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into a radical leftist and was
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combined resources to investi- VENEZUELA
gate and prosecute those who in
flagrant disregard of our laws Shortly after agreeing not
and way of life to try to smuggle to sell advanced anti-
illegal contraband into our area aircraft weaponry to Iran,
Russia has sealed a deal on
of jurisdiction.
the S-300 surface-to-air
DEA continued missile with Venezuela's
Hugo Chavez.
A DEA-Led operation recently
culminated in over 2,000 arrests,
The arms sale is part of a
as the FBI, ICE and Mexican
$2.2 billion military loan
Govt. took part in "Project Deliv-
package provided by Mos-
erance" which led to the seizure
cow. Many other coun-
of $154 million and 74.1 tons of
tries are allegedly in pos-
drugs, as well as the arrest of a
session of the S-300 in
high-priority target.
what appears to be Russia's
rapidly expanding involve-
Two individuals and two entities
ment in the global arms
were linked to the international
trade.
drug trafficking organization La
Familia Michoacana as Specially
One must wonder if there
Designated Narcotics Traffick-
is a possibility of these
ers. This action targeted
missiles eventually finding
Wenceslao lvarez lvarez, aka
their way to Iran by trans-
Wencho, his frontman Ignacio
fer in violation of sanctions
against it.
U.S. and Mexican intelli-
portaciones Nobaro , S.A. de
gence officials told The
C.V.
Washington Examiner that
accused of violating his na- a leftist revolutionary guer-
tion's Constitution by propos- rilla movement known as
the EPR is responsible for
ing an action to eliminate
many kidnappings and at-
term barriers to reelection as
tacks inside Mexico and
other leftist Latin American
secretly receiving funding
leaders have recently done.
from Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez.
In what some called a coup
dtat, President Hugo
Chavez of Venezuela called HONDURAS
for armed action against the
Investigators believe the
Honduran government.
murder of Police Commis-
Venezuelan President Hugo
sioner Jos Puerto was
Chavez assigned Zelaya the
related to his role in the
position at Petrocaribe.
recent destruction of five
clandestine runways used
by drug traffickers