Honduras country
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Claims (38)
Honduras overthrew
José Santos Zelaya documented
“President Zayala with a military coup. Now the Central American military was facing international and regional condemnations for a brazen display of 1970s behavior in the 21st century. The military needed friends in the U.S. to rally behind…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 50:49
United States installed
Honduras host_asserted
“Countries that allowed them free reign were considered progressive and friendly. Those that did not were turned into basically a war. The first burst of American expansionism was over by the time President Taft left office in the beginning …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 36:15
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Honduras host_asserted
“They were not heroes. They were assassins. They were terrorists. They were trained by the CIA to attack people all over the world, not just Cuba. If they had only been isolated to Cuba, that would be one thing. I wouldn't agree with it, but…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 47:02
Fagoth removed_from_power
Honduras book_quoted
“Brooklyn Rivera's faction of the indigenous Indians reached an accommodation with Managua. Stedman Muller lost control over Missouri, which stopped receiving supplies. Fagoth himself was expelled from Honduras, which is one of the operators…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 1:13
United States funded
Honduras documented
“Here is the boogeyman. It's communism. And who are the allies? The Republicans. So, see, they've even figured it out. A network of former Cold Warriors and Republicans in Congress loudly encouraged Honduras' de facto regime and criticized t…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 55:33
Legion of September 15 member_of
Honduras documented
“We were the first people, Blanton bragged, the first group that sent a pickup truck to the Contra Revolution in Honduras. In the spring of 1981, the Legion of September 15 moved its operation from Guatemala to its new headquarters in Hondur…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb @ 48:41
William Casey visited
Honduras book_quoted
“the CIA director visited, whatever the name of that town is, Tegucigalpa in the early summer of 1982 when the machinery was just moving into gear. At the height of the controversy over human rights violation in the summer of 83, Casey again…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 3:11
Dewey Claridge visited
Honduras book_quoted
“work. They just go through the motions. Edgar Chamorro records that Dewey Claridge came to Honduras in July and told the Contra High Command that the CIA had decided to cut off Nicaraguan's oil supplies, clearly unrelated to interdicting ar…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 22:06
Honduras funded
Contras book_quoted
“Bermuda's Air Force was set back when one of its C-47 transports went down on a flight out of El Aquacate. All that was left was a C-54 that couldn't fly for lack of spare parts and one last C-47 that Chamorro nicknamed the Rusty Pelican. H…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 1:40
Whiting Willauer appointed
Honduras documented
“by an air component of the CIA. The groundwork was prepared as quietly as possible. An unenthusiastic station chief in Guatemala was replaced early by a guy by the name of John Doherty, D-O-H-E-R-T-Y. Appointed ambassador to Honduras in lat…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 43:22
United States supplied_arms_to
Honduras documented
“including several times when he coordinated U.S. helicopters to ferry Honduran troops to blocking positions along the border of El Salvador and Nicaragua, and in response to a hijacking incident. In contrast, the ambassador seemed reluctant…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 6:37
United States supplied_arms_to
Honduras documented
“One where an American cleric just disappeared. They weren't interested. Negroponte had a back channel for communications through the CIA, codenamed Red Baron. The embassy had about 150 people assigned. There was 176 military people, U.S. mi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 7:08
United States supplied_arms_to
Honduras documented
“50 U.S. Air Force specialists staffed a radar station to watch Nicaragua from a site known as Carrot Top in the mountains. The CIA station, not large, and one of the bases used together had probably only a dozen CIA actual officers.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 7:38
United States supplied_arms_to
Honduras documented
“and limit the impact of the Contradora group of Latin countries that sought to mediate because they weren't interested in negotiations. The U.S. air, naval, and ground units began extensive exercises in Honduras and off the waters of Nicara…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 10:59
Gustavo Álvarez member_of
Honduras documented
“Argentina's involvement was documented towards the end of 1982 when Hector Francis, a Battalion 601 officer in Costa Rica, gave testimony on his country's activity. In October, Claridge visited Buenos Aires one more time with Jerry Gruner, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 14:03
Israel supplied_arms_to
Honduras documented
“Repeated allegations of Israel's assistance also surfaced. The Israels openly sold arms to Honduras. This is documented repeatedly. They had advisors in all of these countries to assist the CIA in all of these operations, to include Colombi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 15:02
Honduras supplied_arms_to
Contras documented
“This is what he's talking about. Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador fronted arms shipments for the Contras. In both cases, the CIA turned to the People's Republic of China, meaning Taiwan, to supply additional weaponry and missiles to its…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 24:57
CIA supplied_arms_to
Honduras book_quoted
“Guatemala military came in for special attention. The U.S. signed mutual security treaties with Honduras and Nicaragua, both countries hostile to Arbenz because, of course, he was making them look bad because they had already sold their cou…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 34:15
Honduras funded
Democratic Force of Nicaragua host_asserted
“So you see how this is all really murky. But the CIA didn't care. They just want the Sandinista government gone. And they want to use Nicaragua as a drug operation. The CIA eventually got its way after top CIA officials met with their allie…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 21:48
CIA funded
Honduras host_asserted
“from which the Contras would operate. As their part of the deal, both countries would get a lot better treatment and much more foreign and military aid from the U.S. government. That sounds exactly like what we did in Afghanistan with the P…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 34:31
CIA carried_out_attack
Honduras host_asserted
“The resolution was defeated by five to four, and things continued to get worse. So then, during the same time period, the CIA put into practice a plan to create an incident. The agency planes were dispatched to drop several harmless bombs o…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 52:56
Whiting Willauer ambassador_to
Honduras host_asserted
“to be the American ambassador to Costa Rica and Honduras. And he is also considered one of the key players in the 1954 operation against Arbenz that we just covered because he was in Honduras, just as a refresher. His specialty was admiralt…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 16:57
Sam Zemurray attempted_coup_against
Honduras host_asserted
“installed several of the presidents. In the years after the coup that he sponsored in 1911, his Cuyamel Fruit Company and two others, Standard Fruit and United Fruit, which of course we recognize, came to own almost all of the fertile land …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 9:37
United Fruit Company secretly_owned
Honduras host_asserted
“installed several of the presidents. In the years after the coup that he sponsored in 1911, his Cuyamel Fruit Company and two others, Standard Fruit and United Fruit, which of course we recognize, came to own almost all of the fertile land …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 9:37
Ramon Villeda Morales headed
Honduras host_asserted
“the Liberal Party, which Sam Zamuri's coup had forced from office nearly half a century before, finally returned to power. Its leader was a guy by the name of Ramon Valenda Morales. He took over the country in which United Fruit was the big…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 18:59
Oswaldo López Arellano installed
Honduras host_asserted
“make sure they keep their fellow countrymen where these oligarchs want them. So they actually act as their eyes and ears in the local community. So 10 days before the election, the army staged a coup. They install a guy by the name of Gener…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 21:23
Roberto Suazo Córdova installed
Honduras host_asserted
“Honduras held its next election in 1981, and Roberto Suarez O. Cordova, a country doctor and veteran political infighter, emerged as the president. True power remained with the military, specifically a military commander by the name of Gene…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 24:27
United States government overthrew
Honduras host_asserted
“on the private industry side by the international syndicate and the government. And it also shows you the consequences, both foreign and domestic, of this regime change, Gladio operation, that has gone on since the aftermath of World War II…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 31:53
Gustavo Adolfo Alvarez Martinez headed
Honduras host_asserted
“Honduras held its next election in 1981, and Roberto Suarez O. Cordova, a country doctor and veteran political infighter, emerged as the president. True power remained with the military, specifically a military commander by the name of Gene…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 24:27
International Republican Institute carried_out_attack
Honduras host_asserted
“international republican institute they were used to regime change in foreign country so you you you hit a real um hotbed of very interesting you know i think that one of the reasons i think that kind of what has occurred is that you know l…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner welcomes BellaLiberTea @ 50:20
John Peurifoy member_of
Honduras host_asserted
“And to get him in somebody that's more pliable to the overthrow. And the guy, I think his name is P-E-U-R-I-F-O-Y, like Purifoy, something like that, was the ambassador to Honduras. That this, oh, I'm sorry. He went to, the Purifoy guy goes…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' @ 35:35
Vladimir Putin supplied_arms_to
Honduras host_asserted
“Or he just signed a deal with Honduras, which could be why they're pulling out of the port tonight or today rather, because he actually has worked out a deal with Honduras and a couple of other Central American countries. So, you know, but …”
▶ Operation Gladio - France @ 1:41:37
Southern Air Transport operated_in
Honduras caller_asserted
“And then I asked, of course, where did you fly to? And there's a lot. It's almost kind of like, where did you not fly to? I got a lot of Air Force bases, Honduras, Honduras, Jose Enrique Sotocano, Cherry Point, North Carolina, the Marine Co…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 1:11:05
United States paid
Honduras host_asserted
“To bring people to them? Absolutely. But that's no different than what we've been doing with Operation Gladio in paying entire governments like in Nicaragua or Guatemala or Honduras, you know, you name any of them. We paid those people to o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 44:04
Battalion 316 carried_out_attack
Honduras host_asserted
“He was head of the armed forces in Honduras from 1982 until he was thrown out in 1984. And you're like, well, what could he have done in two years? Well, he was actually in charge of a thing called Battalion 3-16. It was a particularly vici…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 4:29
John Thompson funded
Honduras guest_asserted
“became a whistleblower and said that one of their advisors or deans, a General John Thompson, had allegedly provided behind-the-scenes assistance to the Honduran coup plotters. Anderson's allegations was made in a complaint that was investi…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 52:14
Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies funded
Honduras guest_asserted
“Arcos, A-R-C-O-S, a former U.S. ambassador to Honduras who had taken a job at this same hemispheric regional advisory group. By the time the coup occurred, he told me that he received an angry call from a congressional staffer who had met w…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 53:12
Honduras supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua host_asserted
“launching all of the Operation Gladio efforts into cooing the government in Nicaragua. So what I want to do is give you a foundation of each of the areas, and then we'll kind of zoom out a little bit. So we're going to do a micro look at a …”
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Mentions (120)
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What Gladio operations have been perpetuated in that country that we can definitely describe as Operation Gladio. And what we will try to do is run region by region. So because oftentimes if you go to like Latin America, if you look at Hond…
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launching all of the Operation Gladio efforts into cooing the government in Nicaragua. So what I want to do is give you a foundation of each of the areas, and then we'll kind of zoom out a little bit. So we're going to do a micro look at a …
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We have North America, Central America, and South America as kind of the primary Americas that people normally refer to. And Central America generally is considered Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Belize…
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understand that area. We're going to be covering basically El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama in depth. What's interesting, Costa Rica kind of plays a sideshow in many of the stories of their neighbors because the CIA o…
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South of Guatemala and to the west, you have El Salvador. And to the east, you have Honduras. So kind of on the same latitude, you have Honduras and El Salvador kind of as neighbors with Guatemala to the north. Now, no part of El Salvador t…
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In order to get from Guatemala to Nicaragua, you have to go through Honduras. So those become kind of the big players in the drug running, arms running type of scenario when you're going by land. Now, obviously, all of these countries have …
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and reoccupy it. And then all hell broke loose. So in the meantime, when we do that, we call them a communist because we cut them off. We mined Nicaragua's harbor when they decided that they weren't going to listen to what we wanted them to…
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come to America, they all said that they supported him during the revolution because there was so much corruption going on down there. And in the aftermath of that, he instituted land reform because the same company that had bought up all t…
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this gold deposit that was in indonesia and i believe colonel correct me if i'm wrong i believe the same like intent and strategies for that specific resource was deployed in chile guatemala and honduras if i'm not mistaken from the the las…
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in the 90s in Honduras, which is a tell. He also spent time. Oh, yes. He was at the Holy See. He was the Vatican one. Son of a bitch. So again, let's go. You just can't make this shit up, right? It's just a coincidence. Holy crap.…
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according to the man. So again, this is exactly the same pattern. So we want to take over Nicaragua. So we're going to take over Costa Rica. We're going to take over Guatemala. We're going to take over El Salvador. We're going to take over,…
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So in Latin America, in countries like Nicaragua, where you had the United Fruit, who basically monopolized all of the land and basically stole land from all the coffee growers and put them into banana plantations. And the people, after the…
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the Honduran ambassador because he didn't want them staging the attack on Guatemala and housing the dictator that they're going to install there and training his forces in Honduras. So he starts making waves and Frank Wisner picks up the ph…
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And to get him in somebody that's more pliable to the overthrow. And the guy, I think his name is P-E-U-R-I-F-O-Y, like Purifoy, something like that, was the ambassador to Honduras. That this, oh, I'm sorry. He went to, the Purifoy guy goes…
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went to Honduras. So they fired both of those so that they could stage their coup in border countries. Okay. And you're never going to believe this. This probably could be the mic drop of the night. In the book, In Banks We Trust, it is rev…
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Huge warehouses full of communist weapons of all kinds in the local area. Because what the CIA had been doing, both in Honduras and Nicaragua and other places, is they used this large stash of black ops communist weapons, Soviet Union weapo…
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AWACS surveillance planes in the sky over the Caribbean, and an abundance of aerial photographs, despite a very large U.S. radar installation in Honduras manned by 50 American military technicians, the finest electronic monitoring equipment…
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So I find it very interesting that he knows exactly about Gladio and how we operate. So his attitude is, well, if you're going to do that, I'm going to do that. And he does not make false statements. Think what you will about Putin. So far,…
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They were all stationed in Nicaragua, Honduras, and the Panama Canal Zone, which, of course, is all of the places Nicaragua had already been taken over. So had Honduras and Panama. We had all the military bases down there, which they did a …
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that were going to assemble in Honduras under the command of a Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, A-R-M-A-S, before crossing into Guatemala. They used Soviet marked weapons in order to plant them inside Guatemala before the invasion to make cha…
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Guatemala military came in for special attention. The U.S. signed mutual security treaties with Honduras and Nicaragua, both countries hostile to Arbenz because, of course, he was making them look bad because they had already sold their cou…
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had crossed into the agency, meaning the CIA, had crossed into Guatemala from Honduras. Now, let me point out something to you guys. I keep going back to this guy. You remember when I exposed Felix Rodriguez? He's one of the guys, the CIA g…
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The resolution was defeated by five to four, and things continued to get worse. So then, during the same time period, the CIA put into practice a plan to create an incident. The agency planes were dispatched to drop several harmless bombs o…
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but the army officers blocked the distribution of weapons. The Guatemalan president knew that war was near. The Voice of Liberation, the CIA, meanwhile was proclaiming that two large and heavily armed columns were progressing on Guatemala C…
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and dedicated that the struggle against the invaders would continue. Purifoy left livid, and he then began a cable to the CIA headquarters in Florida. This is an exact quote because it was later declassified. We have been double-crossed, an…
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to Europe, all done at the same time, all on purpose. And so what I want to caution people on, and I'm not saying this is the case, so don't misquote me. I want people to understand that in every one of these places that we have discussed s…
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And it was investigating Honduras. And it's not that it's any more gruesome than the rest of them. But if you look at Honduras on a map and the unbelievable reach of what was going on in Honduras, it will literally blow your mind.…
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I'm just going to give you one example before we get started. Again, I just had this overwhelming sinking, and this is what hit me. There's a man that's involved in Honduras. His name is Gustavo Adolfo Alvarez Martinez. Okay, he was a milit…
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show because we're going to go through the history of it, but I want to show you independently of what the author Stephen Kinzer writes about Honduras that we're going to review today. What you just find on your own, and it's tied to so man…
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administration after it, because they got in bed with Congress, to write a similar document. And the amount of military people, specifically this guy by the name of John Thompson, who is prevalent throughout…
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And I'm going to go into that, but it's just literally crazy. All right, so we're going to get started. There's a guy by the name of Sam Zamuri, Z-E-M-U-R-R-A-Y. And I'm going to ask Bridget to post his Wikipedia page because, again, it's c…
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where they basically employed people at slave labor wages to the ports that they owned and through the custom houses that they also owned. And there was an atlas that was published in 1961 that was devoted exactly one sentence to Honduras. …
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900 of which belonged to the U.S. fruit companies, and they were put there specifically to be used only by the fruit companies to haul their fruit to the harbor, not to be enjoyed by the people. Strikes, political protests, uprisings, and a…
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that absorbed more than half of the national budget. The army could not do the job alone, and when it was overwhelmed, it called in the U.S. Marines. The control that the Americans maintained over Honduras, both privately through their comp…
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the oligarchs that wanted to use it to grow bananas or whatever it is that they were growing. And it took the ability of these people to maintain a middle-class lifestyle away from them using coffee farms to do it. That's why that's so sign…
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make sure they keep their fellow countrymen where these oligarchs want them. So they actually act as their eyes and ears in the local community. So 10 days before the election, the army staged a coup. They install a guy by the name of Gener…
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It's A-R-E-L-L-A-N-O. He was very well known and closely associated with the CIA. And he becomes the president. He immediately dissolved the Congress and suspended their constitution. Military officers ruled Honduras for the next 18 years. …
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Honduras held its next election in 1981, and Roberto Suarez O. Cordova, a country doctor and veteran political infighter, emerged as the president. True power remained with the military, specifically a military commander by the name of Gene…
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and the United States because Alvarez was a fierce, quote-unquote, anti-communist who detested the Sandinista movement. And keep in mind, the Sandinista movement was the freedom fighters that the U.S. government labeled as communists so the…
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Soon, hundreds of Contras were operating from the camps along the Nicaraguan border inside of Honduras, and thousands of American soldiers were flying in and out of an Aquacate, A-Q-U-A-C-A-T-E, airbase nearby. From 1980 until 1984, annual …
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From $4 million to $77 million of your taxpayer dollars is going to fund people that are murdering other people who just want their country back from United Fruit. Once again, it had surrendered its national sovereignty to Americans. Rivals…
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It had two purposes, supporting the Contras and repressing dissent within Honduras domestically. The army established a secret squad, which goes by the name of Battalion 3-16. We're going to look into that tomorrow a little bit more. It is …
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Trained and supported by the CIA, it maintained clandestine torture chambers and carried out kidnappings and killings. The most powerful figure in the country during this period was the American ambassador, John Nicroponte, another guy we w…
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But those did not come to light until much later. Thousands of poor Honduran families submerged the grinding poverty and fear of the military fled the country in the 1980s. And guess where they all went? They went to the United States. Many…
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in Honduras. And that's what they watched Americans teach their family members how to do. So they are thinking that they can come here and do to us what was being done by the Americans in Honduras. In 1990, many of these youths were deporte…
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homeland replica of the gang culture that they had created in Los Angeles. I would also argue, in hindsight, when you start looking at this, that's almost like the plan. So the CIA goes down and trains these people and creates this disrupti…
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the Americas, that these people are going to flee. And if they're training them on how to kill people and they come up to the United States, we already know that MS-13 from El Salvador had been co-opted in many ways and used by this police …
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We have documented evidence that these people have done domestic terror events inside the United States that were trained in a foreign country by the CIA and then later allowed to immigrate here. So, just saying. I want to keep you guys tot…
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on the private industry side by the international syndicate and the government. And it also shows you the consequences, both foreign and domestic, of this regime change, Gladio operation, that has gone on since the aftermath of World War II…
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governments that crushed every attempt at national development and went back on lies, bribery, and everything. In 1980, when democracy finally seemed ready to emerge in Honduras, the U.S. prevented it from flowering because it threatened th…
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And Hondurans were basically earning less than three thousand dollars a year in Honduras. No one can know what might have happened in Honduras if it had been left alone. Two facts, however, are indisputable. First, the U.S. had used overwhe…
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It happens. So I've come across repeatedly in investigating Operation Gladio. So what would be the purpose of some CIA infiltrating elements of our military? Like what what possible. The authority that it brings them. So if you're in let's …
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That's all I got for today. I got to get back outside and help my husband finish our garden. So I appreciate everybody being here. I am going to go into the other half of the Honduras story tomorrow with what I'm basically going to do now t…
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Was again, I'm just telling you, it's overwhelming for me sometimes just to see how far these tentacles go. And I actually want to walk you through that process because this is probably one of the best ones in a bad way that I have found th…
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They're not going to come forward. They know that's a death warrant to them. So there's lots of inherent risk there. There's no upside to it for them personally. It's going to be a martyr situation where they know they've signed their death…
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Do you see any connection without going to be like, you know, conspiracy or whatever it's called? Sorry for my English. But I'm new to this and I'm really starving on information and how to find more information. So that's my question. Than…
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I had a conversation about six months ago with one of the guys that was actually deployed from South Com to Honduras who thought that Nicaragua had been infested with actual communists and that the Contras was the good guys and that he was …
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set up all of these terrorist training camps surrounding the entire country. They were in Costa Rica. They were in Guatemala. They were in El Salvador. They were in Honduras and just launched holy hell on these people that just wanted to fr…
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Because after you get them hooked, that's what happens. And we also know unequivocally that radio station after radio station, I did the whole expose on, what was it, Swan Island. That Swan Island off the coast south of Cuba that we basical…
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at a camp just outside of Immokalee. And they then sent them all over the world, Angola, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, blah, blah, blah, El Salvador, Vietnam, to be assassins and killers and torturers and kidnappers. And they were all tra…
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Those people went to El Salvador. They went to Honduras. They went to Guatemala. They were in Angola. They were in Nicaragua. He's been everywhere. He's the guy that was standing there when they arrested Che Guevara and killed him in either…
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But now that I've already done the history of Swan Island and know that it was purchased, quote unquote purchase, it was actually stolen from Honduras temporarily, under the ownership of a CIA fake company that was a steamship in Boston wit…
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And so you can just see all of the similarities. So they were using Swan Island in order to control the people in Central America via propaganda from this freaking radio station on this island that they stole from Honduras. So, again, it's …
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El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Chile, all of them. They all went to Taiwan to this like intermediate school. Then the kind of creme de la creme, if you were going to get like your own cartel network and you were going to run drug routes …
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He was in El Salvador with the death squads. He was in Honduras with the death squads. He was working on the CONFRA thing out of the Bush vice president White House for Donald Gregg, because Donald Gregg, who was the national security advis…
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And we're going to arm the Contras because they're freedom fighters. They're the heroes. They're actually the bad guys. And you military, we need you to bring in all of these resources. We're going to set you up in El Salvador and we're goi…
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Sandinistas win the election in Nicaragua and basically begin kicking out United Fruit and everybody else. The entire thing falls apart, and that's Contras. So the Contras get housed over in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador. They're flying …
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syndicate that's going on in Nicaragua, Honduras, and all of these other countries, mainly because the benefactors is the Sullivan and Cromwell Rockefeller crowd of international syndicate. So they're going to leverage the anti-Castro Cuban…
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were actually the death squad members. And, you know, they got a few other people that weren't trigger pullers, but basically they used the auspices of a political party to cloak the assassins in. So if you go into El Salvador and you go in…
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quote-unquote Cuban exiles, which we refer to as Operation Gladio operatives, in order to conduct not just raids on Cuba, but throughout all of Latin America. You find these Cuban exiles in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua. You f…
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that Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras basically became supporters of their ambassadors and CIA assets on the ground in those countries, all organized behind Crito Lorenz in order to overthrow Guatemalan duly elected, you know, democracy, t…
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in places like El Salvador, Honduras, and basically all over. We found them in Angola. We found them in the Congo. And they've just become paramilitary, being used for Operation Gladio, overthrows, and any other kind of paramilitary act.…
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Cuba after the Spanish-American War, as we've talked about. They've just kind of perfected this as they go forward. The connection between the Phoenix program and later events are clearly evident to include El Salvador, Chile, Nicaragua, Ho…
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ventures that we've looked into because remember what we were talking about when in Nicaragua they formed those camps on the outside of Nicaragua and recruited from those countries their paramilitary to then launch them into Nicaragua we us…
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train them to do it internally, and then drag them around with us when we go forward to other places. For example, there were people that when we overthrew the government in Honduras that became basically CIA contractors that then moved ove…
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And I just did a piece today, a very long thread, about the Operation Phoenix program used in Central America between Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica against Nicaragua. I mean, they implemented it to a T. As a matter of fact, I've eve…
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Now, when it comes to the logistics that you're talking about, unfortunately, with the cartels, the NARC subs, I think that's kind of a little bit maybe what you're hinting at. Yeah. Right. So they actually also build them right kind of ove…
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cocaine trafficking. So you do have these, you do have this continuity. You know, she wrote the book in 82. And she also mentions, of course, the mafia links to cocaine in Honduras with their fascist regime. But you kind of see, you know, t…
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This is exactly what happened with Nicaragua. The U.S. surrounded Nicaragua with Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica and attacked from that ground into Nicaragua. So again, this is not something that's new. These subservient go…
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Those weapons were being ferried out on aircraft down to Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, where all the death squads were, and they all need lots of guns, and they were bringing drugs back on the same aircraft. And then to find an entire …
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Though the U.S. failed to officially install Guaido's allies at the U.N., a handful of his representatives were granted U.N. General Assembly credentials by U.S.-allied Latin American countries, including Colombia, Brazil, and Honduras. Amo…
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by U.S. instruction, agree to accredit Venezuelan opposition members as part of their delegations. It really illustrates to the world the power of U.S. political warfare. One member of the actual Venezuelan delegation, Gessie Gonzalez, twee…
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A left of center Green Party contender threatened to defeat Washington's preferred candidate, Juan Manuel Santos. Faced with sinking poll numbers, the Santos team hired Rendon just 21 days before the election. In that short time, Rendon was…
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He also counted a number of high-profile clients beyond Bogota, including Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who won office in 2012, and Honduras' President Sosa, Lobo Sosa, who came to power in 2010 after a U.S.-backed coup that removed…
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Like Nicaragua did, Honduras did originally. They just overthrew the government and imposed whatever it was that they wanted to. So it's like they corrupt everything. I can understand that, Colonel. I can understand that kind of organizatio…
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proclaiming an end to the guard which had hunted the rebels mercilessly for more than a decade. Those National Guard officers who could escape poured across the border into El Salvador, Honduras, and Costa Rica. Some of them hid inside the …
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The CIA and Defense Department began withdrawing their trainers, advisors, administrators, technicians, logisticians from Central America. And by the end of the year, the Contras were alone and desperate. Thousands of rebel fighters began r…
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This is what he's talking about. Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador fronted arms shipments for the Contras. In both cases, the CIA turned to the People's Republic of China, meaning Taiwan, to supply additional weaponry and missiles to its…
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from the Guatemalan and Honduran government to get weapons to the Contras. The Contras can't buy weapons on an international arms market. Only countries can buy weapons. Certain countries can't buy weapons if they're embargoed.…
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And this is another one that comes up in so many of our stories. Setco, S-E-T-C-O, which happened to be owned by Honduran drug kingpin Ballesteros. In fact, the U.S. Customs Service had known since 1983 that Setco was the principal company …
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And eventually, the Sandinistas were able to overthrow the Somoza government. Well, then what do you do with all of these elite corrupt people? Well, as it turns out, they just shuffled them off to Honduras or Guatemala or Costa Rica, which…
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According to Auckland's official report of the encounter, the man said the ring was being ran by Blanton and Menendez, who imported the cocaine from Colombia through Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, and was one of the largest distributors o…
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The CIA's secret warriors were not only killing the citizens of Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica, but if the two informants were right, they were using LA's inner city to create addicts in order to sell the cocaine to buy their guns. At …
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people, and companies. The same to the Cayman Islands. These are just one part and is a continuation of the report you have. I'll later send you the rest so you can laugh. One of the cops told the Justice Department investigators that she g…
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At the same time they were dealing with Scott Weekly, the two men were trying desperately to get another CIA-linked cocaine trafficker out of prison because of his past assistance to the Contras. The federal prisoner, Jose Bueso Rosa, had b…
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using the proceeds of cocaine sales to finance it. Gosh, where have I heard that before? President Suazo had drawn Boceo Rosa's rap by dumping Honduran Army Chief General Gustavo Alvarez, a fanatical anti-communist who was one of the father…
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Buceso Rosa, a Honduran general, had been one of Alvarez's top aides, and the cocaine coup was intended to restore Alvarez and his men to power. Unfortunately for the plotters, the two American military officers they hired to murder the cur…
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In the summer of 1986, the Honduran attorney flew to Washington and met with Colonel Pena, who began a vigorous lobbying campaign at State and Justice to turn Bolsa Rosa loose, even though he had been indicted for racketeering conspiracy an…
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Contra investigators, General Bosa Rosa, had information which he could use against us, as he had been privy to a large amount of very specific CIA information. They didn't want him talking. To get Washington's attention, Bosa Rosa's attorn…
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from feeling like he's been lied to in the legal process and start spilling the beans, will advise, unquote. The next day, North told Poindexter there had been a good meeting this morning with all concerned. Good for who? The Justice Depart…
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The executive dining room is the dining room for the generals. They're going to have a party for the guy they hired to kill the president of Honduras. And that's before he's even been released from jail. The ceremony was canceled, but McNei…
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Whatever it was, Rosa held his tongue, and after doing three years at Eglin, he was slipped back to Honduras. In a 1995 interview with the Baltimore Sun, he gave a chilling insight into the kind of secrets he possessed. He disclosed that th…
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Nicaraguan's foreign minister with a bottle of liquor that had thallium added to it. Icaza fled Nicaragua and went to work for the Contras in Honduras, as did his wife. Later, he became an attorney for Norwin Menendez. He arranged for the s…
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There was one trafficker the Colombians refused to extradite, Juan Mata Ballesteros, the Honduran billionaire whose airline, Stetco, was flying supplies for the Contras. Instead of turning Mata over to the U.S., the Colombians deported him …
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Oh, he looked at O'Neill and O'Neill was staring at him from other people because the order prohibiting CIA testimony, Finster was unable to pursue the line of inquiry. He quizzed Blanton about his meeting in Honduras with CIA agent Enrique…
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The story grudgingly and often backhandedly admitted that the basic facts presented in the series were all correct, and it buried key admissions deep inside, such as the fact that the CIA knew about some of these activities and did nothing …
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We were the first people, Blanton bragged, the first group that sent a pickup truck to the Contra Revolution in Honduras. In the spring of 1981, the Legion of September 15 moved its operation from Guatemala to its new headquarters in Hondur…
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Menendez at the airport, Blanton said, he started telling me that we had to do some money, that we had to do some money, and to send it to Honduras. Because remember, they moved it from Guatemala to the Contra camp to Honduras. Later at a r…
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into the U.S. in 1981 alone, which would have generated $54 million in sales. Blanton accepted Menendez's pitch to become a cocaine salesman for the Contras, he said, after he and the drug kingpin took a trip down to Honduras for another pe…
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There was an understanding among them. No one would join the Contra forces down there without my knowledge or approval. Blanton confirmed that, telling the CIA that Menendez's role in the Contra operations in California was basically a pers…
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that the ends justify the means, and that is what Mr. Bermudez told us about the Honduras operations and inferring it was the same for the drug operation. Blanton doubted that Bermudez knew specifically they would be selling cocaine to rais…
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or UDN. So they're the Miami-based faction. And they also had some of their members of the UDN hanging out in Honduras, which, again, is close to Nicaragua. Those were called the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Nicaragua, or FARN, F-A-R-N, is…
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winds up because remember he's brigade 2506 and a member of the cuban exile community in miami and he ends up as the number three guy running iran contra under vice president bush donald greg his national security advisor and felix rodrigue…
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crates of radio equipment and rifles from local Miami sporting goods stores that started flooding in to both Honduras and Guatemala. The crates that were going to Honduras was sent directly to the chief of police for the country named Gusta…
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He had taken up the Nicaraguan cause because he was on the same payroll that the rest of them were. Honduras had been working with the CIA for a while at that point. Bermudez and other National Guard officers with the League of September 15…
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into the foreign infrastructure that was being built. By mid-1981, Argentine military advisors were secretly slipping into Honduras and Miami to teach the Nicaraguan exiles how to run guerrilla ops against the Nicaraguan government. They we…
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And basically, he paints the picture of them being taught espionage, counter espionage, interrogation techniques, torture techniques, and how to lead troops in psychological warfare. Kind of like a School of America is set up on the run. So…
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confessed to federal prosecutors that he had gone to Nicaragua in 1982 on behalf of his drug dealer, Uncle Norwin, to negotiate terms of an agreement with officers of the National Police, which were being funded by the CIA. Under that deal,…
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Bound for the U.S., approximately 10 to 20 kilos per month was imported in this manner. Now you know why they have used car dealerships. Herrero Menendez said that Menendez was working with the Honduran government and that the police agency…
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When the CIA got involved in early 1981, its first project was trying to unite all of the groups under one umbrella called the Contras. The bands were too small to be effective and too disorganized. They weren't communicating with each othe…