4/11/11

Source: Two Weeks Notice: A Latin American Politics Blog

The State Department's newly released human rights report on Honduras is a curious mix.  On the one hand, it has 47 single-spaced pages detailing a wide variety of serious abuses--acknowledgment of these abuses is commendable.  On the other, the report dances around assigning specific responsibility to anyone through creative use of the passive tense and vague phraseology.

One of my favorites comes right at the beginning: "There were instances in which elements of the security forces acted independently of civilian control."

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