U.S. Policy in Honduras and Nicaragua: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, March 15, 1983U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983 - 123 páginas |
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Alvarez anti-Sandinista armed forces attacks BARNES basic believe BOGRAN BOOTH Caribbean Basin Initiative Central America civilian government civilian rule conflict confrontation Congress Congressman continued Costa Rica counter-revolutionary Cuba Cuban defense democratic destabilization economic El Salvador elections exile foreign policy Frente Sandinista FSLN GARCIA groups Guatemala GUILLEN Henry Ruiz Honduran military Honduran politics Honduras Honduras and Nicaragua human rights HYDE ideology increase inequality infrastructure interests internal LAGOMARSINO Latin America leaders Liberal Party Marxism-Leninism military assistance Millett nations neighbors Nica Nicara Nicaragua Nicaraguan Government officials opposition peace policy toward Honduras popular prepared statement President private sector PRNG problems programs promote proposed Puerto refugees regime region repression revolution Rican role ROSENBERG rural Salvador and Guatemala Salvadoran guerrillas San Pedro Sula Sandinismo Sandinista Front Sandinista ideology situation in Nicaragua social Somoza stability subcommittee tensions Thank threat tion U.S. aid U.S. Government U.S. military U.S. policy United
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Página 53 - Mr. Chairman, Members of the Committee, thank you very much for the opportunity to testify on this important subject.
Página 51 - Militarization as a policy seems to have taken on a life of its own, becoming an end in itself rather than a means to an end.
Página 83 - Mr. Chairman, members of the Committee, I very much appreciate this opportunity to discuss with you North American policy in Nicaragua.
Página 52 - He has been the recipient of grants from the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities and was recently named a Fulbright Scholar to conduct research in Honduras.
Página 76 - Code clearly and unambiguously states that "it is unlawful to provide or prepare the means for or to furnish money for any kind of military enterprise against a foreign government with which the United States has diplomatic relations.
Página 48 - In addition, the general question of secure frontiers is critical for Honduras, bordering as it does on two countries undergoing rapid change. A greater sense of confidence in Honduras of the government's ability to control its frontiers is key to regional stability. It is important that Honduras not be used as a conduit for the infiltration of men and arms to feed conflicts in neighboring countries.
Página 47 - Honduras' location between Nicaragua and El Salvador gives it a key geopolitical position in the 'bridge-building' process we hope will emerge in Central America.
Página 94 - OAS action was unique because for the first time it passed a resolution calling for the replacement of a head of State. .The legal implications that can be drawn from this act, in the light of International Law , are valuable for us Nicaraguans because they establish a legal precedent that can and should be applied to the FSLN regime, given the fact that the the FSLN not only has demonstrated its genocidal nature exceeding the historic record fo the Somoza dynasty, but they also have become an expansionist...
Página 6 - The political crisis that afflicts our region has internal roots of old injustices and lost hopes, which are jumbled together with the intervention of foreign interests. There will be no» peace in Central America and the Caribbean while the infernal game of hegemonic interests continues In our region. In the cruel conflicts of our peoples the Central .'.. ' Americans provide the bodies and others gather the advantages.
Página 15 - It is in our own interest, ; as well as in the interest of the peoples of Central America that this "infernal game" be ended as quickly as possible.