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Where is Negroponte these days (Original Post) malaise Jul 2014 OP
Preparing his spot in hell. hrmjustin Jul 2014 #1
Dead? nt madinmaryland Jul 2014 #2
No he's still alive malaise Jul 2014 #3
Negroponte played a major role in US political and economic intervention in Honduras Louisiana1976 Jul 2014 #4
Yep malaise Jul 2014 #5
In the Bush-Cheney era, H2O Man Jul 2014 #8
+1 leftstreet Jul 2014 #7
Thank you thats a good question. Drew Richards Jul 2014 #6

malaise

(267,784 posts)
3. No he's still alive
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 08:11 PM
Jul 2014

Nice cushy job at Yale

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44944-2005Apr11.html
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The day after the House voted to halt all aid to rebels fighting to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, U.S. Ambassador to Honduras John D. Negroponte urged the president's national security adviser and the CIA director to hang tough.

The thrust of the envoy's "back channel" July 1983 message to the men running the contra war against Nicaragua was contained in a single cryptic sentence: "Hondurans believe special project is as important as ever."

"Special project" was code for the secret arming of contra rebels from bases in Honduras -- a cause championed by Negroponte, then a rising diplomatic star. In cables and memos, Negroponte made it clear that he saw the "special project" as key to the Reagan administration's strategy of rolling back communism in Central America.

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Is this another special project

Louisiana1976

(3,962 posts)
4. Negroponte played a major role in US political and economic intervention in Honduras
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 09:16 PM
Jul 2014

which brought about conditions that provided fertile ground for gangs and drug cartels. It's decades of US support for leaders in Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala who have been allowing corruption and lawlessness that have given rise to the violence the children have been fleeing.

malaise

(267,784 posts)
5. Yep
Wed Jul 9, 2014, 06:08 AM
Jul 2014

Tell me about it.
Still I wonder about the sudden surge of people leaving those destroyed countries.

H2O Man

(73,308 posts)
8. In the Bush-Cheney era,
Wed Jul 9, 2014, 08:00 PM
Jul 2014

he had a position in intelligence. (I'd have to go back through some files to find out exactly what it was; it was, obviously, troubling that he was anywhere with power.)

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