DEA Agents Kill Another Honduran in Increasingly Aggressive Drug War

Posted by R.J. Jacob ⋅ July 10, 2012 ⋅ Leave a Comment

Two US agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration shot and killed a man in Honduras last week who was suspected of drug smuggling, in the third instance since May of DEA involvement in the killing of suspects in the troubled Latin American country.

The shooting took place on July 3 when a small plane suspected of smuggling drugs from South America crashed in eastern Honduras. Whether the DEA had anything to do with the crash has not been disclosed, but several helicopters carrying commando-style squad militias of DEA agents and their Honduran trainee forces swarmed to the crash site.