Former Honduras President's Son Pleads Guilty to Drug Smuggling

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Telesur

Former Honduras President's Son Pleads Guilty to Drug Smuggling

Published 16 May 2016 (1 hours 59 minutes ago)

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The son of former Honduras President Porfirio Lobo pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiring to import cocaine into the United States, a year after his arrest in Haiti as part of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration probe.

Fabio Lobo, 44, faces a mandatory 10-year minimum prison term when he is sentenced on Sept. 15, and could get up to life behind bars following his plea to a single count of conspiring to import cocaine.

At a hearing in federal court in Manhattan, Lobo admitted to participating in a drug trafficking scheme that a federal prosecutor said also involved Honduran police officers.

"I knew that it was illegal," Lobo said.

Read more: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Former-Honduras-Presidents-Son-Pleads-Guilty-to-Drug-Smuggling-20160516-0031.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. Son of ex-Honduran president pleads guilty to US drug charge

Son of ex-Honduran president pleads guilty to US drug charge
May 16, 2:25 PM EDT

By LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) -- The son of former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo pleaded guilty Monday to a cocaine trafficking conspiracy charge, admitting teaming up with drug traffickers and Honduran police to try to ship cocaine into the United States.

Fabio Lobo, 44, spoke through an interpreter in Manhattan federal court as he confessed to a conspiracy that stretched from 2009 to 2014, nearly matching the years when his father served as president from 2010 to 2014.

Lobo told U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield that no one forced him to plead guilty even though he was placing himself at the mercy of the court to decide his fate on a charge that carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life. His sentencing was set for Sept. 15.

Lobo was brought to the United States in May 2015 to face an indictment charging him with conspiring to smuggle over 5 kilograms of cocaine into the United States.

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[Judi Lynn]

2. The 2nd photo shows he was either 1st one off or back on the tour bus,

or that he got a temporary job sweeping out tour buses when he was in Rome.

He should have asked his dad, the President of Honduras, right after the coup, for some walking-around money.

[Octafish]

3. Honduras was making progress until Hillary's coup.

The whole globalist bunch needs to face justice.

[reddread]

4. why is there always cocaine?

isnt there something else they can make money off of illegally?
is there that much demand from the .01%?

[Octafish]

5. It's like printing money.

Really. Beyond the street and suite sales, the coke itself is easier to use as a medium of exchange than greenbacks by the spooks and criminals of the world these days. They find it easier than cash (which transactions are now monitored and recorded worldwide) for paying off or buying crooks, warmongers, banksters, politicians etc. Works in just about every country, too.

I met Jean Bertrand Aristide, then the president-in-exile of Haiti, the first Democratically elected leader of that desperate nation in 70 years. Years later, I wrote about it later on DU:

Aristide told me the Generals ran Dope, Inc. on Haiti. Personally.

Posted by Octafish in General Discussion (Through 2005)
Sat Mar 20th 2004, 06:49 PM

Sorry if the following is an old read. The thing held true then and holds true still…

I met Jean Bertrand-Aristide after he was deposed by the generals in the early 90s. He came to metro Detroit and spoke before the Cranbrook Peace Foundation.

The newspaper I then worked for didn’t see any reason for sending me to cover Aristide’s speech. The editors weren’t BFEE, but the events on a Caribbean island just weren’t “local” enough for their budget. So, I went on my own time.

The Cranbrook people were happy to see me. They wanted, of course, as much coverage as possible. So, they invited me and the other interested reporter types to have at him for an hour before his address.

I’m ashamed to report, at an important event in two nation’s larger media market, only a couple of CBC radio reporters out of Windsor and one local Detroit TV crew bothered to show. I was the lone print guy. Anyway…

Aristide answered every question asked in English or French. He also told us about life in Haiti, where there were four doctors to care for 4 million people. Another interesting stat: One percent of the population own 99-percent of the property.

I asked Aristide what the United States could do to help him restore democracy to Haiti? Aristide said all Poppy Doc Bush had to do was pick up the phone, call the generals and say, “Get out,” and they would quit their coup and the first democratically elected leader of Haiti in 75 years would be returned to power. Bush didn't and Aristide wasn't until Clinton sent the US Marines, many years and many Haitian lives later.

The reason for Bush Senior's inaction? Aristide said he didn’t know the answer, but he suspected Bush’s politics favored the landowners over the masses. (“Sounds familiar,” I then thought and still think today.)

Aristide said that the generals were deep into the wholesale cocaine importation business. Now who would be their partner in all that? Besides the wealthy landowners, for whom the Generals worked, I mean.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Octafish/785

As I believe ALL people are created equal, I also stand for democracy with the poor and non-European of extraction.

Eternal thanks to the Cranbrook Peace Foundation, one of the best things ever to happen.