Jeremy Scahill, author of Dirty Wars, interviewed by Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman & Juan González

Support hard-hitting investigative reporting
on Democracy Now!

Continue to site Donate Now
download:   Video Audio Get CD/DVD More Formats
Printer-friendly

DEA Agent Kills Drug Suspect in Honduras

A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent has shot a man to death during a raid on an alleged smuggling operation in Honduras. The U.S. government says the victim had reached for his weapon, prompting the U.S. agent to open fire. It was the latest deadly incident involving U.S. agents following a raid that saw four people killed — including two pregnant women — last month. The latest shooting marked the first where the United States has acknowledged an American agent has killed a suspect.

See all headlines for this show
Full Show | First Story >

Creative Commons License The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.