updated Sun. May 12, 2024
-
Mintpress News
April 14, 2018
Most of those traveling in the caravan were from Honduras; all were searching for a life free of violence and want, and none were deterred by President Trump's bellicosity, bluster or bullying. “We really don't have any other option but to migrate,” a Honduran migrant named Henry Josue told MintPressÃâà...
Beckley Register-Herald
April 14, 2018
What do hard working, tax-paying Americans owe to the citizens of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras or any other country for that matter? How about we take care of our own people first? The amnesty granted by Reagan in 1988 is still being adjudicated in the courts today. Liberal judges are letting in illegalsÃâà...
University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily
April 12, 2018
... who claimed he oversaw human rights abuses during his time as Honduran Ambassador under President Ronald Reagan — a 1995 Baltimore Sun investigation found Negroponte knew and did not act on of military abuses in Honduras while he was ambassador. Negroponte has denied the allegations.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
April 6, 2018
Every president since Ronald Reagan has done so. In fact, between Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the ... People are fleeing the turmoil that threatens daily life in Honduras, Guatemala and other countries south of Mexico. They are protected by a humanitarian act passed by Congress inÃâà...
Splinter (blog)
April 4, 2018
Trump has for days railed against the “caravan” of immigrants, mostly from Honduras, fleeing gang violence in Central America through Mexico. ..... 2) It's Ronald Reagan day, the week after Easter, and since Ronald is a Christian sitting next to Jesus it's natural that he sits in his favorite place on earth too.
Green Left Weekly
April 4, 2018
On December 4, 1982, after a meeting between Reagan and Rios Montt in Honduras, Reagan stated: “I know that President Rios Montt is a man of great personal integrity and commitment. His country is confronting a brutal challenge from guerrillas armed and supported by others outside Guatemala.
TRT World
April 3, 2018
... massive group out of their jurisdictions." TRT World's Reagan Des Vignes has more on the story. .... Maria Elena Colindres Ortega, a member of the caravan and, until January, a member of Congress in Honduras, said she is fleeing the political upheaval at home. "We've had to live through a fraudulentÃâà...
NewsClick
April 3, 2018
On December 4, 1982 after a meeting between President Ronald Reagan and Rios Montt in Honduras and at the height of Rios Montt's regime, Reagan stated : “I know that President Rios Montt is a man of great personal integrity and commitment. His country is confronting a brutal challenge from guerrillasÃâà...
Common Dreams
April 3, 2018
They — and their allies in Washington — also looked warily around them at leftist uprisings in neighboring El Salvador and Honduras and determined they ... President Ronald Reagan met with Rios Montt on the same day the Kaibiles attacked Dos Erres, lauding the genocidal dictator as "a man of greatÃâà...
Orange County Breeze
March 25, 2018
The United States orders a refugee airlift to remove those in danger. 1981 The US Embassy in San Salvador is damaged when gunmen attack, firing rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns. 1986 President Ronald Reagan orders emergency aid for the Honduran army. US helicopters take HonduranÃâà...
Foreign Policy In Focus
March 13, 2018
However, this request was denied, as the Reagan administration claimed approving it would only cause a larger influx of Salvadoran refugees ... the case of Honduras—support for a coup government have helped make El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras three of the deadliest countries on earth.
HuffPost Canada
March 13, 2018
As in Chile, the CIA funneled funds to a wide variety of opposition political parties, private sector groups and voluntary organizations, not to mention creating a counterrevolutionary paramilitary army, the "contras," in neighboring Honduras. The Reagan administration's funding of the contras in defiance of aÃâà...
The News-Press
March 12, 2018
The Florida Legislature made headlines last when Governor Rick Scott signed the impotent SB 7026 act, also known as the "Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act .” In this act “expand mental health services and regulations” were mentioned only in passing to make this an acceptableÃâà...
Indiana Daily Student
March 5, 2018
Abrams held several posts in the State Department under the Reagan administration, working extensively on Latin American policy. ... backing Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war — and funneled some of the proceeds to the Contras, a right-wing, Honduras-based militia that attacked Nicaragua throughout the 1980s.
Aquarian Weekly
March 2, 2018
Honduras, Boytoy, Fruit & Flowers, Kino Kimino, Sharkmuffin, High Waisted, and Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires. .... They'll play their own set and back Williams Honor, the Jersey Shore country duo of Gordon Brown and Reagan Richards, who have taken Nashville by storm with two independent hits.
Quartz
February 28, 2018
As in Chile, the CIA funneled funds to a wide variety of opposition political parties, private sector groups and voluntary organizations—not to mention creating a counterrevolutionary paramilitary army, the “contras,” in neighboring Honduras. The Reagan administration's funding of the contras in defiance of aÃâà...
Harvard Crimson
February 22, 2018
Padilla is the son of two Honduran immigrants and was the only conservative among approximately fifty “Other Hispanics,” the category the College used at the ... Ronald Reagan is the poster-child of conservatism, on this campus and elsewhere, but his presidency was disastrous for communities of color.
New York Times
February 18, 2018
I once lived in America, just before the Reagan era. I have always defended America from the criticisms of ... My travels beyond our borders (to countries like Britain, Canada, China and Honduras) have always seen me return home grateful to be an American. The kind of stuff we are made of cannot but helpÃâà...
World Socialist Web Site
February 15, 2018
The Honduran Congress is currently discussing a bill to fine or ban social network companies and Internet providers that don't eliminate “illegal .... with the Reagan administration, against the new Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the Castroite and other left nationalist groups within Honduras.
St, Thomas Source
February 14, 2018
Frank Schneiger Vice President Joe Biden has announced that he will lead a new initiative to reverse the downward spiral that three Central American countries – El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras – have fallen into. In the vice president's words, these countries are being held back by “inadequateÃâà...
People's World
February 12, 2018
For decades the U.S. government has flooded Cuba with propaganda aimed at turning Cubans away from their government. With facilities on the Swan Islands, near the Honduran coast, the CIA's Radio Swan began broadcasts to Cuba in 1960. The Reagan administration in 1981 set up a task force whoseÃâà...
The Week UK
February 2, 2018
In the 1980s, for example, Contra guerrillas backed by then-president Ronald Reagan used Honduras as their base to attack Nicaragua's Sandinista government. Despite Hernandez's track record, Barack Obama's administration celebrated the Honduran leader as a partner in fighting gangs, drugÃâà...
Vox
November 6, 2017
For nearly 20 years, since a 1998 hurricane, the US government has allowed tens of thousands of Honduran immigrants to stay and work in the US rather than forcing them to return to Honduras. The Trump administration hasn't ended that reprieve just yet. But it's hinting, strongly, that it's going to try.
Press Herald
December 31, 1999
They also conveniently ignore history, that our greedy determination to have Caribbean and Central American countries' resources and exploit their markets and labor, has, since the 1954 overthrow of Guatemalan democracy that led to the Reagan-blessed Rios Montt genocide, fomented, abetted, financedÃâà...
History News Network (HNN)
December 31, 1999
When Nixon squeezed the Chilean economy, he strongly encouraged Latin American countries to squeeze too—and inter-American trade suffered. When the Reagan administration armed the Contras, the violence didn't stop at Nicaragua's borders. Honduras, where the Contras trained and camped, wasÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 31, 1999
President Ronald Reagan tried to convince the American public that if the Sandinista government was permitted to take root in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and soon, Mexico, would fall to the Communists. Reagan warned that the Communists could then take over the US-Mexican borderÃâà...
Independent
December 31, 1999
As in Chile, the CIA funneled funds to a wide variety of opposition political parties, private sector groups and voluntary organizations – not to mention creating a counterrevolutionary paramilitary army, the “contras,” in neighboring Honduras. The Reagan administration's funding of the contras in defiance of aÃâà...
Democracy Now!
December 31, 1999
AMY GOODMAN: So, I wanted to turn to Honduras. We talked about it in Part 1 of this conversation, but I wanted to turn to a conversation that we had with Mel Zelaya, Mel Zelaya who was ousted in 2009. In December, we spoke with the former Honduran president. He was ousted in a U.S.-backed coup.
Charlottesville Tomorrow
December 31, 1999
... having been Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, the United Nations, and Iraq. In Washington, he served twice on the National Security Council staff, first as Director for Vietnam in the Nixon Administration and then as Deputy National Security Advisor under President Reagan. He has alsoÃâà...
Brownsville Herald
December 31, 1999
Also, Bollinger is accused of traveling from Dallas to Honduras with the intent of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with boys under the age of 18 between February 2012 and March 2014. Between March and April 2016, Bollinger is accused of traveling through South Texas into Mexico to sexually exploit oneÃâà...
The Conversation US
December 31, 1999
As in Chile, the CIA funneled funds to a wide variety of opposition political parties, private sector groups and voluntary organizations – not to mention creating a counterrevolutionary paramilitary army, the “contras,” in neighboring Honduras. The Reagan administration's funding of the contras in defiance of aÃâà...
|
news and opinion
|
