Click title for original with links and images:
Is a World Bank Loan Funding Murders in Honduras?

by Jeremy Kryt – April 5, 2013
Bank-funded palm oil company implicated in “death squad” killings of land-rights activists

Today's press release from the Treasury Dept. (pasted below) includes a link to a Chepe Handal narco flow chart.

Treasury Designates Honduran Drug Traffickers
4/9/2013

Action Targets Honduran Link to Colombian and Mexican Narcotics Operations

Click title for original of Mark Weisbrot's article in the Guardian with images and links.

Will Congress act to stop US support for Honduras' death squad regime?
In Honduras, Reagan-era atrocities are back as the Obama administration funds a state implicated in murdering opponents
Mark Weisbrot
Saturday 30 March 2013 08.00 EDT

The video (warning: contains graphic images of lethal violence), caught randomly on a warehouse security camera, is chilling.

From CEPR's The Americas Blog:

"We’re Witnessing a Reactivation of the Death Squads of the ‘80s": An Interview with Bertha Oliva of COFADEH

Written by Alex Main
Friday, 29 March 2013 16:10

(Note date)
John Negroponte, William Brownfield and Death Squads Inc.
By Cort Greene

Friday, 04 March 2005

William Brownfield gave a speech in which he stated that the U.S. will support the Honduran police but ignore its commander.

From yesterday's Daily Press Briefing at State, following on previous questioning, more of not much:

QUESTION: Do you have any update on how much aid you guys provide to Honduras in the security sector?

MR. VENTRELL: Honduras. Okay.

QUESTION: Sorry, since --

MR. VENTRELL: So, Brad, you’ve asked about Honduras aid a couple of times this week.

QUESTION: Yeah.

AP reporter Alberto Arce's article US Aids Honduran Police Despite Death Squad Fears has been having a big impact. See, e.g., the State Department's March 25th Daily Press Briefing:

QUESTION: Okay. And I have a question about Honduras, if I may.

MR. VENTRELL: Okay.

My friend and student Beth Geglia has written the following list of rules for grad school. I think it should apply to everyone in academia.

Rules For Myself in Grad School

1. School is never more important than militancy and participation in the world. Never let school render you useless to your community or to the movement for justice.
2. Education is about learning and learning should be emancipatory and joyous. If it is not joyous, you’re doing it wrong. Readjust.