Top Democrats on both the House foreign affairs and judiciary committees called Thursday for an inquiry into Drug Enforcement Administration-led operations in Honduras and Mexico that resulted in the deaths of dozens, possibly hundreds, of people who had nothing to do with the drug trade.
The letter, addressed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, drew on a scathing Justice Department inspector general investigation
into a 2012 DEA operation in Honduras — known as “Operation Anvil” —
that had targeted drug trafficking networks operating along that
country’s Caribbean coast. During one botched operation, members of the
agency’s vetted Honduran federal police unit —
acting on the DEA’s orders — fired on a water taxi carrying people who
were apparently unarmed and not connected to the drug trade. Four people
were killed and another four were injured.
The letter also refers to a ProPublica investigation
into a 2011 massacre by the Zetas cartel in the Mexican state of
Coahuila that was triggered after sensitive information shared by the
DEA with its Mexican vetted police unit wound up in the hands of cartel
leaders, who ordered a wave of retaliation against suspected traitors.
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Source: ProPublica
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