Crocodiles starve after US freezes elite Honduras family's assets

[mfcorey1]

More than 10,000 crocodiles are starving to death on a farm in Honduras after the wealthy family owning them had their assets frozen because of US accusations they laundered money for drug traffickers.

AFP journalists visiting the 30-hectare (70-acre) property called Cocodrilos Continental, in San Manuel near the city of San Pedro Sula, also saw seven scrawny lions kept in cages.

"The crocodiles and lions are dying of hunger, and we are too because we haven't been paid the last two weeks," said one worker at the entrance to the farm who asked to go by the pseudonym Jose.

"Forty animals have already died. They were taken away in boxes by trucks to be buried," he said.

The farm is owned by the Rosenthal family, a powerful clan in Honduras with interests spanning banking, media, property, tourism, livestock and agriculture.

On October 7, the US Treasury Department said it was targeting the family's 79-year-old multimillionaire patriarch, Jaime Rosenthal, his son Yani Rosenthal, and his nephew Yankel Rosenthal "for their money laundering and drug trafficking activities".

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[VanillaRhapsody]

1. Why would they bury the bodies of animals that had died

and not fed them to the animals that are still starving?

and crocodiles and alligators will eat each other in times of drought and famine...

[Octafish]

2. Amazing.

When pigs aren't right for the job, use crocs.

[geek tragedy]

3. A crocodile won't be starving to death three weeks after feedings stop.

They can slow their metabolism WAY down. A major benefit of being endothermic.

[Jesus Malverde]

4. A narco with a crocodile farm

How surprising.