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Talk me down that he or some other neo-con scumbag didn't fuel this mass arrival of women and children into the USA?
hrmjustin
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(64,920 posts)malaise
(267,784 posts)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)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.
Tell me about it.
Still I wonder about the sudden surge of people leaving those destroyed countries.
H2O Man
(73,308 posts)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.)