Word: suazo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conspirators had met with the assassin two dozen times over the past two months. They had paid him $100,000, plus $20,000 in expense fees, and promised him $200,000 more after the deed was done. His mission: kill Roberto Suazo Cordova, 57, President of Honduras, before mid-November. During the civil chaos that would presumably follow the assassination, the plotters intended to seize control of the Central American state. There was one catch: unknown to them, the hired assassin was working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
...were considering whether to revise the 1954 Bilateral Assistance Military Agreement, under which the U.S. can bring a wide range of military equipment to Honduran soil, and in particular a secret 1982 appendix that made possible the creation of the Regional Military Training Center. The government of President Roberto Suazo Córdova has also been discreetly pressuring some 10,000 Honduran-based contras to move into Nicaragua. After playing host to as many as 5,000 U.S. servicemen and conducting joint military exercises with the U.S. almost continuously over the past 18 months, Honduras now houses fewer than...
...popular in a country in which barely half the population is fully employed and per capita income is only $600 a year. Although in the present fiscal year the U.S. is committed to sending Honduras $168 million in economic aid, vs. only $78 million in military aid, the Suazo government would like to receive even more compensation for its support. "We have wonderful relations with the U.S.," says Government Spokesman Amilcar Santamaria, "but we believe the level of U.S. [financial] cooperation could be higher...
...latest U.S. exercises raised immediate speculation about Washington's role, if any, in what amounted to a Honduran housecleaning. For the past two years, Alvarez has been accused of being the de facto strongman of Honduras, pulling both military and political strings behind the folksy, conservative Suazo. The charge was one that Alvarez took no great pains to deny. A colonel when he took over as armed forces chief, he arranged his own series of promotions to five-star general. Fiercely antiCommunist, he launched a harsh antiterrorist campaign and enthusiastically backed the Reagan Administration in creating a regional military...
...praising President Suazo following the ouster, U.S. officials said that they were surprised but undisturbed by the sudden purge. There is considerable justification for Washington's confidence, since for the past two years Suazo has faithfully echoed Alvarez's boosterism on every aspect of U.S.-Honduran military cooperation. Some Hondurans, however, appear to feel differently. As the Granadero exercises rolled ahead, an estimated 4,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Tegucigalpa denouncing government oppression and demanding an end to the U.S. military presence in Honduras. It was the first significant protest demonstration in the country in more...