Micheletti nephew shot to death, army colonel assassinated

[rabs]

(Don't know what to make yet of couple of intriguing news items out of Tegucigalpa today that will probably show up later in the English media.)

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Enzo Micheletti, 25, and unidentified young man were shot to death. Bodies found on Sunday in wooded area in the municipality of Choloma, Cortés department (province).

Enzo Micheletti was the son of the a (late) brother of the golpista president.

Investigan muerte de sobrino de Micheletti

Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Las autoridades policiales investigan la muerte de un sobrino del presidente de Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, cuyo cuerpo sin vida fue encontrado el domingo en el municipio de Choloma, departamento de Cortés.

Los cuerpos sin vida de Enzo Micheletti y de otro joven no identificado fueron descubiertos anoche en una zona boscosa del municipio norteño, y permanecían como desconocidos en la morgue sampedrana. Familiares reconocieron el cuerpo de Enzo Micheletti, pero la otra víctima sigue como desconocida. Ambos fueron asesinados a balazos.

Micheletti, de 25 años, era hijo de un hermano ya fallecido del presidente hondureño.

http://www.elheraldo.hn/ez/index.php/Sucesos/Ediciones/2009/10/26/Noticias/Investigan-muerte-de-sobrino-de-Micheletti
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Wake for Col. Concepción Jiménez today.

Army officer was shot to death on Sunday night at his home by unknown gunmen. He was the director of the army's private Military Industry which makes uniforms, boots and other clothing.

Police say motive and identity of gunmen are unknown.

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Tegucigalpa, Honduras
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Los restos del coronel hondureño Concepción Jiménez, asesinado anoche en la capital hondureña, fueron velados este lunes en funerales San Miguel Arcángel, en la colonia Alameda.

Al velatorio asistió el jefe del Estado Mayor Conjunto, Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, y el aspirante presidencial por la Democracia Cristiana, Felícito Avila, entre otros.

El coronel Jiménez recibió todos los honores por parte del instituto militar. Su sepelio será mañana a las 8:00 AM en el cementerio San Miguel Arcángel de la capital.

Desconocidos mataron a tiros anoche al coronel y gerente de la Industria Militar (Indumil), según informe del portavoz del Ministerio de Seguridad, Orlin Cerrato.

Jiménez "estaba en frente de su casa en la colonia Los Robles de Tegucigalpa, cuando se bajaron unos individuos de un taxi y le dispararon", relató el oficial de la policía.

Luego del incidente, el oficial fue llevado al Hospital Militar en estado delicado, pero minutos después falleció.

Cerrato dijo que se desconoce el móvil del crimen y la identidad de los autores de la muerte contra el alto oficial militar.

La Industria Militar donde laboraba el ahora occiso, es una empresa privada de las Fuerzas Armadas de Honduras, donde fabrican uniformes y otro tipo de ropa y calzado para los soldados pero también vende prendas de vestir a negocios particulares.

http://www.elheraldo.hn/ez/index.php/País/Ediciones/2009/10/26/Noticias/Velan-con-honores-a-coronel-hondureno

[rabs]

1. English version from Al-Jazeera

The nephew of Roberto Micheletti, the leader of Honduras's military-backed interim government, has been shot dead in an apparent "execution-style" killing.

Police said he had bullet wounds to his head and chest, and that his hands were tied behind his back.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/10/2009102618581952907.html

In an apparently unrelated attack, army Colonel Concepcion Jimenez was shot dead on Sunday night outside his home in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, the military said.

[EFerrari]

2. This is horrible. And now Mierdaletti has the blood of his own family

on his hands.

[rabs]

3. The scary thing tonight

is that the goriletti death squads may go out hunting for resistance leaders.

There is speculation that the nephew may have been involved in drug trafficking and the narcos did him in for some reason.

The assassination of the army colonel is strange. Chat room people saying it may have been golpista elements because the officer may have been opposed to the coup regime.

But whoever did it followed him home in a taxi, got out and shot him. That is not exactly a random crime where car-robbery was the motive.

Suspect that the resistance will be blamed for both deaths and it will be open season on it's people.

I hope not.

[EFerrari]

4. No matter who killed those people, the resistance will be blamed

because it's convenient. The assassination of the colonel is strange. Maybe he wasn't playing ball with someone.

[Peace Patriot]

5. The golpistas have opened a Pandora's box of evil in Honduras.

I have been appalled at the reports of beatings, torture, rape and other savagery against helpless prisoners as well as the brutality against peaceful protestors--in addition to the murders of leftist leaders that have been reported, including at least one case of torture before death. These are not normal human actions by soldiers and police--any more than Lynndie England's behavior was normal for an Army reservist. This kind of behavior is induced --promoted by higher ups, made acceptable, both by the lawless, brutal attitudes of top leaders and by specific conditioning and orders down the line. The "message" that civilized behavior, restraint and lawfulness, and common decency, have been abandoned, is passed down. Nor are death squad murders normal. The murderers--whether they are killing targeted people or using the general mayhem to "settle scores" or gain power through homicide--are given general or specific messages that they are immune from consequences. And the state of terror that is created, of course, serves the purpose of high-end theft and powermongering.

This is one of things that I have found particularly heinous about the Bush Junta--their bullying or messaging to otherwise law-abiding people--often young people--army recruits, reservist conscripts--that wretchedly indecent and criminal behavior will not only be tolerated; it will be preferred and rewarded, and those who object will be punished and demoted. This is similar, in its horror, to corrupting children--for soldiers are under command and obliged to obey, on pain of death. They are dependent on their commanders for their training, their safety and all their needs--food, medical care, clothes. And to disrespect their service, and ravage their souls, the way Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales and that cabal did is a supreme crime, in my opinion. It is second only to the death rained upon a million innocent Iraqis, and the suffering of the victims of torture. Killing someone's soul--stripping them of their idea of the good--is almost beyond comprehension as a crime. And that is what the Bush Junta did to U.S. military personnel, and what the Junta in Honduras is doing to the Honduran military and police and to Honduran society.

[EFerrari]

6. BushCo truly is a culture of corrption and their toxicity

has to an extent become airborne in our country. and, as we have learned, Honduras happened with the aid and encouragement of our old Iran Contra pals. And why not, how many of them ever faced a single consequence for their actions.

[Judi Lynn]

7. No doubt they WILL use this as a cover for intensified human rights abuses,

as they will insist the non-violent protesters have done this, the same people they have been wildly abusing through their commandeered police and military members while they have remained cloistered deeply within fortresses themselves, serenely above the daily slaughter and violence being inflicted upon the population.

[Judi Lynn]

8. Honduran colonel killed

Honduran colonel killed
Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:49

A nephew of de facto leader Roberto Micheletti was killed in a possible political attack, and a colonel was shot dead separately amid high tension in Honduras, authorities said.

Honduras is mired in Central America's worst political crisis in decades, following the 28 June arrest and ouster of President Manuel Zelaya over his plans to change the constitution.

Police found the remains of Enzo Micheletti near Choloma, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of the capital on Sunday, along with those of another youth, local justice official Rafael Fletes told AFP.

The 25-year-old, who was the son of the de facto leader's brother, disappeared on Friday, added Fletes, who did not rule out a political motive for the death.

Unidentified attackers meanwhile shot and killed a colonel in the capital Tegucigalpa overnight on Sunday, said Orlin Cerrato, a spokesperson for the Security Ministry.

Colonel Concepcion Jimenez, who worked for a private company which supplies clothes to the Honduran army, died in hospital after he was shot dead outside his home, Cerrato said.

http://news.iafrica.com/worldnews/2011545.htm

[Judi Lynn]

9. BBC News: Honduras leader's nephew killed

Page last updated at 05:45 GMT, Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Honduras leader's nephew killed

The nephew of the interim President of Honduras Roberto Micheletti has been found dead in what the police are calling an execution-style killing.

Enzo Micheletti's body was discovered on Sunday in woodland near Choloma, 250 km north of the capital, Tegucigalpa.

Police say his hands were tied behind his back and his body was riddled with bullets.

here is no indication that his death is connected to the coup that brought his uncle to power at the end of June.

~snip~
It is not thought that the interim leader's nephew was involved in politics, but Honduras has the highest murder rate in Central America - much of it drug related.

More:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8327196.stm

[Judi Lynn]

10. google translation of a story in a Mexican newspaper on Enzo Micheletti.

Enzo Micheletti, nephew of the de facto president of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, was shot dead in the north of the country.

Micheletti's nephew, who had disappeared days ago, was found dead on Monday, amid some bushes and decomposing Next to the corpse of his friend, said the National Police spokesman, Orlin Cerrato.

The bodies of Enzo, 25, and Samir Alexander Gavarrete, 28, were found with the arms tied and a shot in the head Therefore follows that both were reduced by force, brought up the bed of a creek there and executed in cold blood.

According to Honduran newspaper 'La Prensa'The two youths had left on Thursday in El Progreso, on board a white Ford Choloma toward, and may have been killed early on Friday because the Saturday morning the police were stopped this vehicle on which already carrying the alleged murderers, who have been identified as members of the band behind the Olanchanos.

When you try to stop them, the criminals resisted and began shooting at officers and managed to escapeBut had to leave the vehicle, which was recovered by police.

This is the second violent death of a nephew of President coup, after that in August 2006, murder of several shots at Walter Hall Micheletti, when he refused to give his truck four criminals.

According to local media, Enzo, about 24, was son Antonio, deceased brother the de facto president of Honduras, whose family is originally from the city of El Progreso (north).

Original:
http://www.lasextanoticias.com/noticias/ver/ejecutan_a_un_sobrino_de_micheletti/185531

[rabs]

11. Another high-profile kidnapping today

Alfredo Jalil kidnapped
Tue, 10/27/2009 - 11:26 — AP The Tegucigalpa businessman Alfredo Jalil, father of Gavo Jalil, Jr., the vice minister of defense in the de facto government, has just been kidnapped from the Colonia Lomas. It appears the intra-golpista war has begun in earnest


(Will try to find more info later)

[rabs]

12. More on Jalil

(This is a prominent family in Honduras.)


Deputy Defense Minister’s Dad Kidnapped
October 27th, 2009 · No Comments
Honduran businessman, Alfredo Jalil Solomon, 81, father of Deputy Defense Minister of the Government of Honduras, Gabo Jalil, was kidnapped by several unknown men in Tegucigalpa today, reported the victim’s wife, Gloria Mejia Jalil.

The woman, told local media that according to eyewitnesses, at least two men forced her husband to get into their vehicle as he left his home in an upscale residential neighborhood, Lomas del Guijarro, in Tegucigalpa near the presidential palace.

The man left home at 8:45 Honduras time, when a car pulled in front of his vehicle, and another behind, to prevent Jalil from escaping before they took him.

The kidnappers fired at least one shot in the left door of her husband’s car, said Mrs. Jalil, who stated that her husband “is a man who turns 81 in December, and is suffering from blood pressure and diabetes”. Her husband “was alone” in the vehicle, and requires medication on a permanent basis. Mrs. Jalil believes the political conflict in the country is responsible for the attack. “These are not common criminals,” according to Gloria Mejia Jalil.

“All I ask is they have mercy on elderly people. We are not responsible for what is happening”, she stated: “To my dear friend Manuel Zelaya, if you are listening please (…) release him. ”

Khalil’s family has long-time ties to the ruling Liberal Party, and both Alfredo Jalil and his wife were deputies, while she also was nominated for Mayor of Tegucigalpa.

His son, Khalil Gabo, is a liberal deputy in the National Congress, who sought permission to serve as Deputy Defense Minister in the Government headed by President Roberto Micheletti.

[EFerrari]

13. I wonder if these kidnappers are militares.

Because isn't that the real question here? What the army is going to do?

[rabs]

14. Here is an interesting article,

It sounds like the golpistas are having an internal struggle.

Article below talks about the killing of the nephew, the army colonel and mentions the kidnapping today.

http://quotha.net/node/503