Google search: Negroponte Death squads

[RBHam]

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[RBHam]

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[Mika]

2. Just add Cuban exiles to the search

Here

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[bloom]

3. He's almost over-qualified....

"He is a controversial figure because of his involvement in covert funding of the Contras in Nicaragua (see Iran-Contra Affair) and his covering up of human rights abuses carried out by CIA-trained operatives in Honduras in the 1980s."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Negroponte


:grr:

[peacetalksforall]

4. Do we call this guy American?

WIll someone remind me again why the followers/swallowers in this country believe we are superior to other nations? Or why we have to believe we are? Are the good people in this country who strive for things we're told we're about (freedom, liberty, justice) overshadowed and tossed by the dark, sinister, bloody who supposedly lead us? Who are the real Americans here?

[riverwalker]

5. chilling

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/27/1435207

Former official Rick Chidester, who served under Negroponte, says he was ordered to remove all mention of torture and executions from the draft of his 1982 report on the human rights situation in Honduras. During Negroponte's tenure, US military aid to Honduras skyrocketed from $3.9 million to over $77 million. Much of this went to ensure the Honduran army's loyalty in the battle against popular movements throughout Central America.

In the hearings on Negroponte's appointment to his current post as UN ambassador, he was questioned by Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff members on whether he had acquiesced to human rights abuses by death squads funded and partly trained by the Central Intelligence Agency. Negroponte testified that he did not believe the abuses were part of a deliberate Honduran government policy. "To this day," he said, "I do not believe that death squads were operating in Honduras."

[gratuitous]

6. Is his appointment subject to a Senate confirmation?

Of course, those clowns rubber-stamped Dr. Menge-er, RICE and Tortureboy Gonzales, so I can't see them being too picky about the Angel of Death Squads Negroponte.