Jake Johnston

Jake Johnston is a Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

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Police watch as demonstrators march to protest against the government of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince October 24, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / HECTOR RETAMAL (Photo credit should read HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images)

A U.N.-Backed Police Force Carried Out a Massacre in Haiti. The Killings Have Been Almost Entirely Ignored.

A U.N.-backed Haitian police raid in November ended in the summary execution of civilians. The U.N.'s version of events conflicts with eyewitness testimony.

Members of the Honduran Directorate for the Fight against Drug Trafficking (DLCN) and the Military Police take part in an operation to seize 32 real estate, 15 vehicles and nine commercial companies of six Honduran police officers charged in absentia in New York late last month, in Tegucigalpa on July 14, 2016.The police officers were indicted in a cocaine smuggling and weapons conspiracy linked to a son of the troubled country's former president. The six defendants, aged 39 to 46, were charged a month after Fabio Lobo, son of former Honduran president Porfirio Lobo, pled guilty to conspiring to import cocaine into the United States. US prosecutors say the officers agreed to give cocaine safe passage through Honduras in exchange for nearly $1 million in bribes from purported Mexican drug smugglers, who were in fact undercover US agents. / AFP / ORLANDO SIERRA (Photo credit should read ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP/Getty Images)

Informants Claim Drug Traffickers Sought Assistance of U.S.-Backed Honduran Security Minister

Jake Johnston

- Nov. 26

The 2009 coup ushered in a right-wing government that is now also tied to drug trafficking, according to a key DEA informant.

Supporters of ousted Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya clash with soldiers near the presidential residency Tegucigalpa, Monday, June 29. 2009. Police fired tear gas to hold back thousands of Hondurans outside the occupied presidential residency as world leaders from Barack Obama to Hugo Chavez appealed to Honduras to reverse a coup that ousted the president, Manuel Zelaya. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

How Pentagon Officials May Have Encouraged a 2009 Coup in Honduras

Jake Johnston

- Aug. 29

Military officers at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies helped coup leaders — at cross purposes with other U.S. government agencies.

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A U.N.-Backed Police Force Carried Out a Massacre in Haiti. The Killings Have Been Almost Entirely Ignored.

Informants Claim Drug Traffickers Sought Assistance of U.S.-Backed Honduran Security Minister

How Pentagon Officials May Have Encouraged a 2009 Coup in Honduras