CIA archives show ties between the Honduran Border Caravan and the Reagan Administration
January 24, 2019
CIA archives show ties between the Honduran Border Caravan and the Reagan Administration
Covert and overt action in the ‘80s contributed to the “regional instability” still felt today
Written by Chelsea Dickens
Edited by JPat Brown
In 1984, General Gustavo Alvarez Martinez of Honduras, a long-time U.S. ally and 1976 School of the Americas graduate, was exiled to Florida at the end of a barrel.
In an interview with NBC’s Brian Ross, Alvarez bitterly recounted that he did not receive any help from his friends at the U.S. Embassy. All that was given to him was a letter through the wife of the U.S. Ambassador’s wife at the time that it would be “best” if the family not stay in the country.
A few years earlier, during the 1981 Honduran elections, President Ronald Reagan’s U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Vernon Walters made the claim that a “friendly” Honduras will mean and end to the influence of their Communist neighbors in Cuba and Nicaragua.
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