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<p>NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. federal court documents show Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández and some of his closest advisers were among the targets of a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation.</p> <p>A document filed by prosecutors on Tuesday in the Southern District of New York mentions Hernández as part of a group of individuals investigated by the DEA since about 2013 for participating “in large-scale drug-trafficking and money laundering activities relating to the importation of cocaine into the United States”.</p>

The same top Bush administration neoconservatives who leap-frogged Washington’s foreign policy establishment to topple Saddam Hussein nearly pulled off a similar coup in U.S.-China relations—creating the potential of a nuclear war over Taiwan, a top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell says. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, the U.S. Army colonel who was Powell’s chief of staff through two administrations, said in little-noted remarks early last month that “neocons” in the top rungs of the administration quietly encouraged Taiwanese politicians to move toward a declaration of independence from mainland China — an act that the communist regime has repeatedly warned...

The article by Andrew Cockburn entitled "True Colors: Divided Loyalties in Puerto Rico," published in the March 2003 issue of the National Geographic Magazine, which has a world-wide readership of over seven million, has sparked much commotion in Puerto Rico and the United States. In his article, the author, who based his damaging characterization of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans on interviews with members of pro-independence, anti-U.S., and Leftists sectors, portrays Puerto Ricans as a bunch of drug addicts, alcoholics, and disloyal to the U.S., who live at the expense of the U.S. taxpayers, and that the economy of the...