Word: tegucigalpa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same might be said of U.S. policy in Honduras. Cleanup crews in Tegucigalpa continue to wash soot off the U.S. embassy annex, attacked two weeks ago by gringophobic students protesting the seizure and extradition to the U.S. of accused Drug Kingpin Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros. At least two Hondurans died in the riots; damage estimates ranged up to $6 million, and the U.S. indicated that it expects reparations. The Reagan Administration insisted that the attack was orchestrated by drug traffickers, including a military faction sympathetic to Matta...
...give the lie to its own claims. Just last month the Hondurans were compelled by Washington to request assistance to halt a Sandinista cross-border attack aimed at the contra camps, then watched dismally as 3,200 U.S. troops rushed into the country. Says a Western diplomat in Tegucigalpa: "Honduras has always been a means...
...82nd Airborne in Honduras in response to the Nicaraguan invasion highlights these problems. At hearings before the Senate last week, Secretary of State George Shultz said, "It's important that people know the United States will fight." The Administration properly used military force in Honduras to bolster Tegucigalpa's morale and to deter further Nicaraguan incursions across the border. In essence, we stuck out the American chin and dared the Sandinistas to hit us--and it worked, as they withdrew this week without destroying the main contra supply cache...
...TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras--Nicaragua withdrew its soldiers from the Honduran border yesterday and declared an end to fighting while it holds true talks with Contra rebels, according to reports from all sides...
...TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras--President Jose Azcona said yesterday the 3200 U.S. soldiers on an emergency mission in Honduras probably will not be needed much longer because Nicaraguan troops are retreating from Honduran territory...