U.S. security aid to Honduras may fuel deadly political violence

Evidence

Military violence, too, has escalated since the coup against President Zelaya. Human rights groups have identified more than four thousand human rights violations after Zelaya’s ouster, including arbitrary detention, torture, and political assassinations, with the de facto government implicated in scores of abuses. Opposition members, journalists, and activists have continued to be the victims of shootings, beatings, death threats, and political intimidation. In the lead-up to the 2013 national elections, eighteen candidates for the party led by Zelaya and his wife, Xiomara Castro, were murdered. While many of the facts are still unclear, there’s growing reason to fear that providing money and resources to the Honduran military and police forces contributes to rising levels of violence and insecurity throughout the country. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 301

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the ‘iron fist’/carceral-guarantee logic from the Pentagons theme of militarization as mutual relationship: arming a force implicates the provider in that force’s abuses.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 301