Word: suazo
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...then Vice President as assuring the government of Honduras that it would be well rewarded if it would continue to harbor contra camps on its territory and funnel military supplies to the rebels. Bush visited Tegucigalpa on March 16, 1985. According to the evidence, he told Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova that the U.S. would carry out a promise from Reagan to increase and expedite military and economic aid in return for this help...
According to the document, Reagan had urged the Hondurans to continue helping the contras in a letter to Suazo one month before Bush's visit. The U.S. "conditions" for giving some $110 million in aid were considered so sensitive that a secret emissary was sent to brief the Honduran President orally on them. The quid pro quo had been approved that same month at a meeting of a special interagency crisis-planning group headed by Bush, although it was not clear whether he led this key meeting. At the time, the Boland amendment was in effect, banning lethal help...
...documents for the first time show that Bush backed a 1985 plan to increase Central Intelligence Agency aid to Honduras as an incentive to encourage the Honduran government to support the Contras. They also identify Bush as the emissary from the United States who informed Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova that the Reagan Administration was expediting delivery of more than $110 million in economic and military aid to the Contras. Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D.-Me.) said Thursday that such quid pro quo arrangements "were clearly inappropriate, possibly illegal, and involved the United States...
...Accepted McFarlane's suggestion in April 1985 that the President telephone Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova to ask him to intervene with Honduran military officials who were holding up the transfer of military supplies to the contras. Reagan made the call, and the ammunition reached the rebels...
...times on the contras' on-the-ground progress and on the Administration's efforts to sustain the movement, McFarlane said. Occasionally, the President became directly involved in providing assistance: when Honduras blocked a shipment of arms to the contras in October 1985, McFarlane said, Reagan contacted Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova and persuaded him to release the weapons...