Crocodiles Starving to Death as Owner's Assets Frozen
Crocodiles Starving to Death as Owner's Assets Frozen
Nov 3, 2015 11:20 AM ET // by Noe Leiva, AFP
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.
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