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Los RosenthalJaime Rolando Rosenthal Oliva, vice president Jan 1986 - Jan 1990, specially designated drug trafficker according to the US Yankel Rosenthal, a former minister of investment under President Juan Orlando Hernandez and a cousin of Jaime. Yani Rosenthal, son of Jaime and sentenced for working with Los Cachiros. |
How Elites and Narcos Do Business, Politics in Honduras 10/9/2019 Insight
Crime: "But then the relationship deepened much more than Jaime had explained in
the interview. In 2009, the prosecutor says, Jaime transferred a parcel of land
to CW-1 (Confidential Witness One.) CW-1 was presumably either the oldest
brother, Javier, the middle brother, Devis, or their younger brother, Santos
Isidro. The three made up the core of the Cachiros. By then, all three had
turned themselves in to US authorities and had become cooperating witnesses in
numerous cases, including the one against the Rosenthals. In return for the
land, Jaime expected to get “below-market rate” prices for the cows the Rivera
Maradiaga family were selling to them, the US prosecutor says in the exhibit.
This was not a small deal — the Rosenthal family were one of the largest meat
and dairy providers in Honduras during this time period."
Narco-Politics Cast Shadow on Honduran Presidents: Court Documents 6/1/2019 Insight
Crime: "Prosecutors also named President Hernández as a target in a Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigation that started in 2013, a separate
recently unsealed filing shows. Hernández, his sister Hilda, and several members
of Honduras’ powerful Rosenthal family were under investigation for “large scale
drug-trafficking and money laundering activities related to the importation of
cocaine into the United States,” according to the 2015 filing that was unsealed
this week in a New York federal court. In Honduras, meanwhile, Hernández’s
predecessor, Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo Sosa, has been accused of directing government
funds to fraudulent business deals with a Cachiros-owned construction firm."
Honduran politician pleads guilty to U.S. money laundering charge 7/25/2017 Reuters: "Rosenthal
was charged in October 2015 along with his father, Jaime Rosenthal, a former
vice president of Honduras, his cousin, Yankel Rosenthal, a former minister of
investment under current Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez; and Andres
Acosta Garcia, a lawyer for Grupo Continental. Prosecutors have said that the
four men engaged in a multi-year scheme to launder proceeds of narcotics
trafficking and bribery offenses through accounts located in the United States."
La captura del mega empresario hondureño crea un terremoto 7/14/2017 Noti
Bomba: "Los Rosenthal tenían tanto poder que jamás vieron venir su caída. Quizás
no vieron las señales de los planes de Estados Unidos para el Norte de
Centroamérica: Guatemala, Honduras y El Salvador. Después de la crisis de niños
migrantes que llegaban a sus fronteras –y la vergüenza mundial que representan
videos en los que los detienen y no los dejan entrar–, Estados Unidos parece
dispuesto a invertir pero después de limpiar los Estados, la política y la
economía en estos tres países. En Guatemala encontró un aliado en la Comisión
Internacional Contra la Impunidad (CICIG) y financia el 40% de su presupuesto.
Es el instrumento, coinciden los donantes europeos, más efectivo para combatir
las mafias de corrupción e impunidad enquistadas en el Estado. En Honduras,
parecen dispuestos a romper lazos históricos con grandes empresarios. Esto
porque el Plan Alianza para la Prosperidad fue lanzado en Honduras en un
complejo turístico en el que los Rosenthal tienen acciones, el Indura Beach and
Golf Resort. Junto a Scott Nathan, llegado desde Washington del Departamento de
Estado."
Honduras Kingpin Accused by US Will Turn Himself In: Reports 10/18/2016 Insight
Crime: "Within months of the Cachiros’ surrender, the United States brought drug
trafficking and money laundering charges against members of one of Honduras’
wealthiest and most politically powerful families, the Rosenthals, who were
linked to the Cachiros’ operations."
La captura del megaempresario hondureño empieza un terremoto 11/7/2015 Nomada,
Guatemala: "Para los políticos porque junto con quien fue el capo de los
Cachiros –los narcos que lavaban dinero en el banco de los Rosenthal– también
temblaba el presidente hondureño, conocido por el acrónimo JOH."
Did Yani Rosenthal Surrender in Honduras Elite Case? 11/3/2015 Insight
Crime: "Secondly, Yani’s decision may be so as to protect the Rosenthals'
conglomerate, Grupo Continental, one of Honduras’s largest economic groups. The
US indictment was released at the same time as the US Treasury Department’s
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added three Rosenthals and seven of
their businesses to the “Kingpin List,” effectively embargoing all business
dealings with the family. While there are no open investigations against the
Rosenthals in Honduras, Honduran officials have seized at least 16 of the
family’s assets. The government has also closed the Rosenthal’s Banco
Continental. Liquidation of the bank has been a major financial hit for the both
the family and ordinary Honduran citizens."
La caída de los Rosenthal, el poderoso clan hondureño acusado de lavado de
dinero y narcotráfico 10/14/2015 BBC Mundo: "Como una de las familias más
ricas e influyentes de Honduras, los Rosenthal estaban acostumbrados a ocupar
importantes puestos de gobierno y su apellido figuraba regularmente entre los
aspirantes a la presidencia. Pero en lugar de pelear por la máxima magistratura
sus energías ahora están puestas en tratar de evitar una cárcel en Estados
Unidos, país que les acusa de haber estado lavando dinero proveniente del
narcotráfico durante al menos diez años."
US Releases Indictment Against Honduras Business Behemoth 10/7/2015 Insight
Crime: "The US Treasury Department simultaneously named the three Rosenthals as
"Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers," and added the family bank, meat
packing plant and investment arm, among other businesses, to its "Specially
Designated Nationals" (SDN) list, which prohibits others from doing business
with these companies or face sanctions."
El empresario que quiere un Honduras de ricos 6/30/2014 Forbes: "Otra de
las apuestas de Jaime Rosenthal está en el sector turístico con una
participación minoritaria en Indura Beach & Golf Resort, en el Puerto de Tela,
al norte de Honduras, que a través de su empresa Promociones y Turismo es
propietaria de una gran cantidad de tierras vecinas al proyecto Indura."
Open
Letter from President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales in Relation to the Jewish
Community in Honduras 10/5/2009 NarcoNews: "It would be worthwhile to
consult the Government Secretaries of my cabinet about the accusations that I
have anti-Semitic positions. When the Honduran people elected me President, I
received criticism from some anti-Semites, because I named, among other
religions, some very talented and qualified Hondurans who practice Judaism, as
members of the Government Cabinet. I named as Government Secretary in the
Offices of the Presidency, the one who would be my right hand in the government,
Yani Benjamin Rosenthal; who gave me strong support in managing the Economic
sector, this close collaborator invited me to the Bat Mitzvah ceremony of his
daughter. I also named Mr. Leo Starkman as Minister of Foreign Investment and on
another occasion, Minister of Energy. I also named Engineer Moises Starkman as
Minister in charge of Bio-Fuels. He reminded me on one occasion of the suffering
of the Jewish people in the Nazi concentration camps. This close collaborator
also informed me of the significance of the expression Shabat Shalom, a greeting
used by Jews to honor their sacred day of the week. Also in my government I
named Mr. Jacobo Regalado Weitzembluth General Manager of the telecommunications
company."
History Repeats Itself in Honduras - Banana Workers Unions Apply Lessons of 1954
General Strike to Coup Resistance 9/14/2009 NarcoNews: "As for other kinds
of replacement, Nuñez announced that many of the banana plantations in the
vicinity of La Lima had been replanted with African palms, which produce palm
oil and biodiesel. University of California professor Dana Frank, well – known
by all at COSIBAH, offers one explanation for the proliferation of the African
palm in her book Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin
America. According to Frank, banana corporations like Chiquita took advantage of
the destruction of the majority of the Honduran banana plantations by Hurricane
Mitch in 1998 to withdraw from plantations that had workers’ unions or else
replant them with African palms, which require less of a work force and thus
presumably generate fewer workers’ demands. Other objectives of African palm
proliferation were suggested by Nuñez, one of them being the expropriation of
land from small farmers who had been encouraged to convert to the crop and then
gone bankrupt due to increased Asian production of palms and their diminishing
market price. Nuñez listed Honduran politician and businessman Jaime Rosenthal
as an example of someone who might end up in possession of the expropriated land
and proceeded to list other things already in the Rosenthal family’s possession,
such as banks, crocodiles, the newspaper El Tiempo, and the Marathon soccer team
– which, he added mischievously, workplace safety coordinator Gloria García
avidly supported."
Honduran Government Representative Threatens San Juan Community President 10/2/2006 Global
Exchange: "Vice Minister Suazo arrived in the evening at the house of Jessica
García, where the President was speaking with Yolanda Lambert, another member of
the community Patronato. Suazo pointed out that only a few days before he had
spoken with members of the Rosenthal family, who had expressed the need to come
to an agreement in private with members of the Patronato, so that the community
cease to reclaim Nuevo San Juan, part of the community's ancestral lands being
claimed by powerful businessman and politician Jaime Rosenthal… It confuses us
that under the so-called Government of Citizens' Power, the situation begins to
replicate that of the massacre of 1937. Over the past few months, we have lived
through the February 26 murder of community youth Epson Andrés Castillo and Yino
Eligio López by agents of the armed forces assigned to protect the planned
construction site of the Los Micos Beach & Golf Resort, numerous threats to our
Patronato president Jessica García, and the recent murder of young Mirna Isabel
Santos. ...It is lamentable that Vice Minister Suazo, considered a prestigious
Garifuna intellectual by many, has allowed himself to become a spokesperson for
the most reactionary wing of the Liberal Party instead of defending the
interests of his People. But it is not the first time that he has represented
the interests of the Honduran oligarchy."
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