Gustavo Adolfo Alvarez Martinez person
also: General Gustavo Alvarez, General Alvarez
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Gustavo Adolfo Alvarez Martinez headed
Battalion 316 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
Ronald Reagan paid
Gustavo Adolfo Alvarez Martinez host_asserted
“They were trying to kill, as we've said many times, the Sandinistas. And the Sandinistas was actually the freedom fighters trying to take their country back from the global oligarchies, the international syndicate, as I refer to it. And you…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 5:55
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
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▶ 4:03
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…
▶ 4:29
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…
▶ 24:27
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…
▶ 24:53
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…
▶ 26:18
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…
▶ 1:11:06
Then one of the people that we talked about was Gustavo Adolfo Alvarez Martinez. He was the military officer and head of the armed forces. So if you just look at his Wikipedia page, and again, keep in mind, you can't just look at Wikipedia.…
▶ 56:32
but the openness at which FDN paraded around Tegu. Fortunately, Honduran commander General Alvarez left the scene, deposed by internal maneuvers, and his successors renewed their commitment to the Contra. There's a lot of stories about him …