John Negroponte
Negroponte has been called the "contra boss" for operations in Central
America and now heads the whole US intelligence community.
"There were some serious human rights violations, [but] to say that they were systematic, numerous and that the [Honduran] government was consistently abusing the human rights of Hondurans -- I don't agree with that," Mr. Negroponte said. "There was
Was the CIA involved? Did Washington know? Was the public deceived? Now we know: Yes, Yes and yes.
On June 11, 1981, 14 years ago today, university professor Tomas Nativi was in bed with his wife when six members of Battalion 316, wearing black ski masks, burst in. Nativi, the founder of the radical leftist group People's Revolutionary Union (URP)
These CIA-trained Hondurans describe their lives -- and the deaths of their victims.
Kicks, freezing water and electric shocks. In between, a visitor from the CIA.
ON THE NIGHT OF July 8, 1982, a dozen soldiers wearing black ski masks and carrying automatic rifles raided the home of Oscar Reyes, a journalist who wrote articles critical of the Honduran military. Helicopters hovered above the two-story, brick hou
In 1995 Gary Cohn and Ginger Thompson of The Baltimore Sun unearthed massive and substantiated evidence from various sources pointing the finger at Mr. Negroponte knowledge of the crimes. The reporters also found that hundreds of Hondurans "were kidn
I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras.
Are there parallels between El Salvador in the 80s and Iraq today? Maybe. But the lessons learned by Washington are the wrong ones.
Two full-text, searchable databases of Honduran press clips and declassified documents are available to the public in the Archive Reading Room.
An Interim Report on Declassification by the National Commissioner for Human Rights in Honduras
The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq.
"Honduran military committed hundreds of human rights abuses" and "inaccurate" reporting to Congress.
