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Title: Honduran Chief of Security Forces General Gustavo Álvarez Martínez
Date: 1982-10-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: General Gustavo Álvarez Martínez, commander in chief of the Honduran security forces, speaks to journalists in his office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, circa November 1982. General Álvarez permitted the United States to train and arm anti-Nicaraguan government forces - known as the Contras - on Honduran soil and served as the point man for US officials as they funded the anti-Communists to defeat the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
Subject: Contras; Anti-Communist; Security; FSLN; Sandinistas; Honduras; Central America; Cold War
Country: Honduras
Subject -- Personal Name: Gustavo Álvarez Martínez
Local Identifier: honduras_nb_0001_web.tif
Rights statement: Copyright 1982 Robert Nickelsberg

Title: Honduran Chief of Security Forces General Gustavo Álvarez Martínez
Date: 1982-11-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: General Gustavo Álvarez Martínez, commander in chief of the Honduran security forces, speaks to journalists in his office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, circa November 1982. General Álvarez permitted the United States to train and arm anti-Nicaraguan government forces - known as the Contras - on Honduran soil and served as the point man for US officials as they funded the anti-Communists to defeat the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
Subject: Contras; Anti-Communist; Security; FSLN; Sandinistas; Honduras; Central America; Cold War
Country: Honduras
Subject -- Personal Name: Gustavo Álvarez Martínez
Local Identifier: honduras_nb_0002_web.tif
Rights statement: Copyright 1982 Robert Nickelsberg

Title: US Ambassador To Honduras John D. Negroponte
Date: 1983-06-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: US Ambassador to Honduras, John D. Negroponte, speaks to journalists about the US government's support for the Nicaraguan Contras in his office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras June 1983. Negroponte was US Ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985 and served in the US Foreign Service from 1960 to 1997. He also served in the Bush Administration as the U.S. representative to the United Nations from 2001 to 2004 and was ambassador to Iraq from June 2004 to April 2005.
Subject: Civil War; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid; Insurgency; Nicaragua; Contra War; FSLN; Sandinistas
Country: Honduras
Subject -- Personal Name: John D. Negroponte
Local Identifier: honduras_ct_0006_web.tif
Rights statement: Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg

Title: US Ambassador To Honduras John D. Negroponte
Date: 1983-06-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: US Ambassador to Honduras, John D. Negroponte, speaks to journalists about the US government's support for the Nicaraguan Contras in his office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras June 1983. Negroponte was US Ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985 and served in the US Foreign Service from 1960 to 1997. He also served in the Bush Administration as the US representative to the United Nations from 2001 to 2004 and was ambassador to Iraq from June 2004 to April 2005.
Subject: Civil War; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid; Insurgency; Nicaragua; Contra War; FSLN; Sandinistas
Country: Honduras
Subject -- Personal Name: John D. Negroponte
Local Identifier: honduras_ct_0008_web.tif
Rights statement: Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg

Title: US Ammunition Along Honduran-Nicaraguan Border During The Contra War
Date: 1982-11-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Bullets for a US supplied M-60 machine gun lie on the ground near a Honduran army outpost along the Honduran-Nicaraguan border November 1982. US military aid to Honduras was known to be handed off to the Nicaraguan Contra army operating camps along the Honduran-Nicaraguan border. The Contras were the various US-backed and funded right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to the early 1990s in opposition to the socialist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government in Nicaragua.
Subject: Civil War; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid; Insurgency; Nicaragua; Contra War; FSLN; Sandinistas
Country: Honduras
Local Identifier: honduras_ct_0005_web.tif

Title: U.S.Ambassador To Honduras John D. Negroponte
Date: 1983-06-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: US Ambassador to Honduras, John D. Negroponte, speaks to journalists about the US government's support for the Nicaraguan Contras in his office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras June 1983. Negroponte was U.S. Ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985 and served in the U.S. Foreign Service from 1960 to 1997. He also served in the Bush Administration as the US representative to the United Nations from 2001 to 2004 and was ambassador to Iraq from June 2004 to April 2005.
Subject: Civil War; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid; Insurgency; Nicaragua; Contra War; FSLN; Sandinistas
Country: Honduras
Subject -- Personal Name: John D. Negroponte
Local Identifier: honduras_ct_0007_web.tif