Word: tegucigalpa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was trouble almost from the beginning. In the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa the day before, the F.D.N. leadership had promised an extended ten-day trip through the territory they hold inside Nicaragua. But when we arrived at "Base Nicarao," one of the contras' two main northern bases, we were greeted only by a chorus of F.D.N. recruits, ranging from boys of 14 to weathered campesinos singing anti-Sandinista war hymns, including one to the tune of When Johnny Comes Marching Home...
...gravel road from Cifuentes to Las Trojes is a pleasant, ordinary scribble between mountains at roadside and a green valley. Peasants pick their way as rickety trucks rumble by. The main thing to interest a foreign visitor on the stretch, a four-hour drive southeast of the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, is that the border with Nicaragua is as little as 20 or 30 yards away. There is a sporadic, undeclared war between the two countries; the proximity can mean "action"-gunfire. Last week that promise of a story drew Reporter Dial Torgerson, 55, of the Los Angeles Times, and Freelance...
Much of the anxious talk in Tegucigalpa centers on one man: General Gustavo Alvarez Martínez, 45, the fervently anti-Communist commander in chief of the Honduran armed forces. When Roberto Suazo Córdova was sworn in last year as Honduras' first civilian President in a decade, Alvarez vowed that the army would be at the service of the state. But growing U.S. military involvement in Honduras may have weighted the delicate power balance in favor of Alvarez. Critics argue that Alvarez, who was scheduled to visit Washington this week, now plays such an important role...
...member Honduran force. They point out that the Nicaraguans have stationed tanks within easy striking distance of Honduras, while Honduran troops have been kept away from the border. The Sandinista junta has made no secret of its interest in making trouble for the U.S.-backed government in Tegucigalpa. In April, Nicaragua's government-controlled press gave prominent coverage to the founding of a new coalition of Honduran guerrillas, the National Unity Directorate of the Revolutionary Movement of Honduras. The group attacked the "interventionist and warmongering policy that the Reagan Administration has imposed on the Honduran government and army...
...military representative from Argentina, a country that has also been heavily involved in training and equipping the contras. According to the F.D.N., a key member of the second staff is a man known as Carlos, who is the CIA station chief in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa...