John Negroponte and the coup in Honduras

Noone thought that the crisis pitting Honduras against the United States could unleash a military coup d'Etat. Washington ... Under the direction of John Negroponte, the US embassy in Tegucigalpa has become the headquarters for the Nicaraguan “contras” and their death squads. In this perspective, the ...

John Negroponte, the US ambassador during many of those years, had a straightforward mission: establishing Honduras as the launching pad for the ... Later the State Department announced its support for elections under the coup government without the prior restoration of Zelaya, infuriating other ...

After a failed CIA coup in 1996 betrayed every CIA agent in Iraq to the Iraqi government, precluding a second coup attempt, the newly formed neoconservative .... In the 1980s, under Ambassador John Negroponte, who eventually became Director of National Intelligence, the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa ...

The U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, John Negroponte, oversaw the mercenary army attacking Nicaragua and the emergence of death squads in El ... We learned that these communities were still actively resisting the coup and forming a new political party to challenge the right-wing coup government not ...

Just as the 2009 coup in Honduras was a setback for all Latin America, the outcome of the current crisis will have consequences far beyond ... The US Ambassador to Honduras, John Negroponte, oversaw the mercenary army attacking Nicaragua and the emergence of death squads in El Salvador. Tens of ...

National police in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa—including elite U.S.-trained units—refused to impose a nighttime curfew Monday night that was .... In fact, it was the cause of the coup, supposedly, in 2009, when President Zelaya just wanted a referendum to see if people wanted to have—make a ...

Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981, and appointed John Negroponte ambassador to Honduras. Negroponte, who later in his diplomatic .... Kaine, as far as I can tell, has said nothing about that coup (his beloved Jesuits condemned it in no uncertain terms). Watching Kaine talk about Honduras, he ...

Since a June 2009 coup in Honduras, violence beneficial to rightist power brokers and international corporations — violence directed against activists for the .... Honduras was then known sarcastically as “Aircraft Carrier Honduras” and effectively under the rule of US Proconsul John Negroponte, officially ...

The desire of U.S. to send a message to the region, namely those who saw Venezuela under Chavez as source of inspiration, would lead them to play an active role in the April 11, 2002 coup that saw President Chavez briefly ousted from power. The history of Latin America over the last decade would be ...

Encouraged by then-US ambassador to Honduras John Negroponte, the Battalion 3-16 death squad was responsible for the disappearance of almost 200 ... fanatical Honduran elite as a die-hard communist puppet of Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro - he was overthrown in a military coup on June 28, 2009.

Members of Indigenous group COPINH protesting in the Honduran capital, ... the world since a 2009 coup backed by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. ... Reagan, the US appointed John Negroponte as its Ambassador.

To talk more about the significance of Tim Kaine's time in Honduras, we speak ... Ronald Reagan, when he won in 1980, appointed John Negroponte, who ... It dated back to a coup that John F. Kennedy presided over after the ...

Kaine, a Catholic, spent nine months in Honduras, from 1980 to 1981, in the ... 1981, and appointed John Negroponte ambassador to Honduras. .... dictatorship was installed by the Kennedy administration, in a coup, one of ...

Since the coup, Honduras has become one of the most dangerous .... Proconsul John Negroponte, officially known as the US ambassador to ...

The history of Latin America over the last decade would be radically different had a popular uprising against the coup not returned Chavez to ...

Exclusive: As Secretary of State in 2009, Hillary Clinton helped a right-wing coup in Honduras remove an elected left-of-center president, ...

To be sure, much of Honduras' contemporary plight - while perhaps ... Encouraged by then-US ambassador to Honduras John Negroponte, the Battalion ... and Fidel Castro - he was overthrown in a military coup on June 28, ...

A few months after the 2009 coup d'etat against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, I was approached on the street in Tegucigalpa by a man ...

Many analysts and specialists on Latin American have speculated on the role of former ambassador to Honduras John Negroponte, who ...

I spoke to human rights workers, Indigenous leaders and victims of state aggression along with officials at the US embassy in Tegucigalpa to understand how this state has become one of the most violent countries in the world since a 2009 coup backed by ...

The list includes such sterling figures of Republican orthodoxy as John Negroponte, former Reagan-era U.S. ambassador to Honduras, and Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush's presidency. Let us also not forget former ...

Temer's stunning, and seemingly unscripted, acknowledgement will surely bolster the view of impeachment opponents that Dilma's removal was a "parliamentary coup d'etat." ... Both were founded by the American industrialist David Rockefeller and have as ...

They're granting visas and visits to Syrian opposition politicians. They're talking about isolating you diplomatically and, perhaps, a coup d'etat or your regime crumbling. ... And, who was John Negroponte? In the 1980s, he was Ambassador to Honduras ...

They're talking about isolating you diplomatically and, perhaps, a coup d'etat or your regime crumbling. What are you thinking about that?

They're talking about isolating you diplomatically and, perhaps, a coup d'etat or your regime crumbling. What are you thinking about that?

At the recent annual convention of Veterans for Peace, VFP Vice President Jerry Condon said: "The US peace movement has been demobilized by disinformation on Syria.

She has embraced the endorsement of neocon John Negroponte and is even reportedly courting the endorsement of Henry Kissinger.

... to Honduras, which was the staging ground for the U.S.-backed Contras in Nicaragua. Hillary Clinton has faced questions on the campaign trail about her own role in Honduras as secretary of state, including legitimizing the 2009 coup in Honduras.

Since a June 2009 coup in Honduras, violence beneficial to rightist power brokers and international corporations - violence directed against activists for the poor and indigenous - has skyrocketed.