Perú Official Threatens “Legal Action” Over Honduran Tear Gas Story

by Al Giordano, NarcoNews (reposted)

Mon, Sep 28, 2009 6:42AM

On the website of today’s daily La República – an important newspaper in Perú – a YouTube video by Honduras’ Gremio de Cineastas (a filmmaker’s association) that we published on Narco News on Wednesday - and something we reported from that video - has now launched a national polemic in that Andean country, including a threat of “legal action” by the country’s Government Minister against those of us that reported it.

The video shows Honduran coup regime police invading the Hato de Enmedio neighborhood of Tegucigalpa shooting tear gas canisters clearly stamped, “National Police of Perú.”

This is what your servant wrote at the time:

“We can also see in that video the revelation that the tear gas canisters shot by the National Police yesterday were stamped as property of the government of Perú, suggesting strongly that Peruvian President Alan García is a participant in smuggling arms to the Honduran coup regime. Something he will now have to answer for to the Organization of American States in general, and his neighbor Brazil in particular.”

The story then got picked up by the Brazilian national newsweekly Carta Capital and then by Peruvian dailies La Primera and La República, causing the Congress of that country to launch an investigation and demand that the Government Minister appear at a hearing to testify.

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