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Honduran and U.S. authorities have seized at least 4.6 tons of cocaine on a boat in the Caribbean Sea and arrested six of the vessel’s crew members.

Honduran Navy Comm. Juan Pablo Rodriguez says the cocaine was found on the Honduran-flagged “Eclipse” about 100 miles (160 kms) off the Honduran coast in a joint operation with the U.S. Coast Guard. The area is near the Nicaraguan border.

Rodriguez said Saturday that the officials were still searching the boat and the total of the haul could end up being more than 4.6 tons.

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There are times when a prosecution and a prison sentence are so fishy that they cry out for clemency. That’s why the U.S. Constitution gives the president the power to issue pardons — and a pardon is desperately necessary in a case that originated in Bayou La Batre.

Sometime between now and Sept. 4, Honduran businessman David Henson McNab will be released after nearly eight full years in a U.S. federal prison — all because, prosecutors say, he was too selfish about shellfish.

American importers Robert Blandford and Abner Schoenwetter, who entered prison three years later than McNab (unlike him, they had stayed free pending appeals), still must serve three years of their eight-year sentences.

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At 2:00 a.m. this morning, over three thousand natives, armed with sticks and stones arrived at the archaeological park of Copan Ruins to take over it and stop the entrance of national and foreign tourist as a pressure measurement for the government to fulfill a series of necessities they have been facing for several years now.
The government has to resolve in a short term the purchase of over 4,000 acres of land for 103 million lempiras as well as other demands from the Mayan Chorti indigenous population.

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A local business in Georgia completed the first part of its contract with the government of Honduras to build training planes for the Central American nation’s air force. Four pilots from the Honduran Air Force have been in Moultrie training on the new planes.

Missions Chief Lt. Col. Jorge “Padre” Cabrera said Maule Air, Inc., signed a contract with the government of Honduras in September to build aircraft for training missions. Honduras has bought four planes, but he said the four are only a starting point for future business relations between Maule Air and Honduras.

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