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	Honduras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Republic of Honduras is an independent country in western Central America, bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the south west El Salvador, to the south east by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean, to the north by the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea.
		Honduras became a state in the United Provinces of Central America in 1821, and an independent republic with the demise of the union in 1840.
		Asians in Honduras are mostly of Chinese and Japanese descent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Honduras (1647 words)

	Military of Honduras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The military now is far below its authorized strength, and further reductions are expected.
		In January 1999, the Constitution was amended to abolish the position of military commander-in-chief of the armed forces, thus codifying civilian authority over the military.
		Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 0.6% (FY98)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_of_Honduras (197 words)

	Honduras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Honduras is a country in northern Central America, bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the south west El Salvador, to the south east by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea.
		Honduras borders the Caribbean Sea with its north coast and the Pacific Ocean south, by the Gulf of Fonseca.
		Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the American hemisphere, with GDP per capita at $US2050 per year (1999)..
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/Honduras.htm (799 words)

	Honduras Facts and Figures, Honduras History, Political, Banking, Education, Lifestyle
		Honduras is approximately 1000 miles southwest of Miami and has a mainly mountainous area of 48,200 square miles.
		Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, got its tongue twisting name from the ancient Nahuatl language, and translated means "silver mountain" In effect, Tegucigalpa came to being during colonial times as a mining center.
		Honduras lies at what was the southern tip of the Mayan civilization that spread southwards from the Yucatán peninsula through modern Guatemala to the city of Copán, now in north-west Honduras.
	www.ca-bc.com /zip_internacional/about_honduras.html (2015 words)

	GAO - Honduras: Continuing U.S. Military Presence at Soto Cano Base Is Not Critical
		U.S. military and embassy officials in the region agree that the military's contribution to the new objectives is incidental and not reason enough to maintain the presence.
		According to these officials, the military personnel at Soto Cano serve as an example of a military force that is subordinate to civilian control, a main tenet of democracy.
		Further, the continuing U.S. military presence at Soto Cano appears inconsistent with the current goal of the U.S. Embassy in Honduras--which is to reduce the overall size and scope of U.S. activities in Honduras in recognition of declining U.S. funding and increased political stability in the region.
	www.fas.org /irp/gao/nsi95039.htm (4937 words)

	Honduras -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1821, Honduras gained independence from Spain and became part of Iturbide's Mexican Empire; from 1825 to 1838 it was a member of the Central American Federation.
		In late 1974 the Caribbean coast of Honduras was devastated by a hurricane.
		As political unrest in the surrounding areas increased in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the United States pressured the Honduran government to hold democratic elections, and in 1982 a new constitution that called for free elections was promulgated and Robert Suazo Córdova became president.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/honduras_history.asp (1130 words)

	Honduras - Gurupedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The nation of Belize (formerly "British Honduras") is some 75 km away across the Bay of Honduras at the two nation's closest points.
		Part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became a state of the nation of Central America in 1821, and became an independent republic at the demise of the union in 1840.
		The population of Honduras is predominantly of Mestizo descent and Roman Catholic faith.
	www.gurupedia.com /h/ho/honduras.htm (278 words)

	Honduras
		Military officials will no longer have the autonomy and freedom that they once enjoyed, which given Honduras' history is reason enough for the military to grow restive.
		After creating such a furor over the possibility of the military staging a coup, and the appearance of one either underway or in the works last week, it is possible that last week's changes were made in order to rein in the military.
		The civilian government in Honduras is fighting to rein in its military commanders and the civilian government in Chile is faced with a delicate balancing act over the arrest in Britain of former military leader General Augusto Pinochet.
	www.tpwmi.com /honduras.html (1551 words)

	Honduras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Honduras is a nation of northern Central America, bordered to the west by Guatemala and El Salvador, to the south by Nicaragua and the Pacific Ocean and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea.
		Part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became a state in the United Provinces of Central America in 1821, and became an independent republic at the demise of the union in 1840.
		During the 1980s, Honduras proved a haven for anti-Sandinista contras fighting the Nicaraguan government and an ally to Salvadoran government forces fighting against leftist guerrillas.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/ho/Honduras.htm (328 words)

	Military of Honduras
		Events during the 1980s in [[El Salvador] and Nicaragua led Honduras -- with US assistance -- to expand its armed forces considerably, laying particular emphasis on its air force, which came to include a squadron of US-provided F-5s.
		The resolution of the civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua and across-the-board budget cuts made in all ministries has brought reduced funding for the Honduran armed forces.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Military_of_Honduras.html (187 words)

	Honduras - The United States
		In 1982 Honduras signed an annex to its 1954 bilateral military assistance agreement with the United States that provided for the stationing of a temporary United States military presence in the country.
		In its military exercises, which involved thousands of United States troops and United States National Guardsmen, the United States spent millions of dollars in building or upgrading several air facilities--some of which were used to help support the Contras-- and undertaking roadbuilding projects around the country.
		A new mission for the United States military in Honduras, and perhaps its number-one priority, is the use of surveillance planes to track drug flights from South America headed for the United States.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-5713.html (1874 words)

	A carefully crafted deception - baltimoresun.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The military in Honduras -- the country from which the Reagan administration had decided to run the battle for democracy in Central America -- was kidnapping and murdering its own citizens.
		Time and again during his tour of duty in Honduras from 1981 to 1985, Negroponte was confronted with evidence that a Honduran army intelligence unit, trained by the CIA, was stalking, kidnapping, torturing and killing suspected subversives.
		Reyes, a founder of the journalism school at the National Autonomous University of Honduras, was openly sympathetic to the Marxist Sandinistas in Nicaragua and had written numerous newspaper columns criticizing the Honduran military.
	www.baltimoresun.com /news/local/bal-negroponte4,0,2326054.story (4191 words)

	Honduras Military
		Military planeloads of medicine and provisions were dispatched to the area, and...
		The Honduras News in Review is part of a larger effort to examine...
		Honduras is also the site of a major US military base, further...
	www.nation-info.com /Honduras-Military.html (337 words)

	GAO - Honduras: Continuing U.S. Military Presence at Soto Cano Base Is
		DOD and State Department officials acknowledged it was unlikely the United States would become involved in a major military conflict in Latin America.
		U.S. military personnel are routinely deployed throughout Latin America for training missions without a dedicated, semipermanent U.S. logistics and support base like Soto Cano.
		They said that DEA operations in Honduras could be conducted with one Chinook and two Blackhawk helicopters.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/library/reports/gao/nsi95039.htm (4946 words)

	HONDURAS TRUTH
		Honduras Human Rights Journey: a report from from SPAN/--Strategic Pastoral Action's human rights journey to Honduras from January 5 to January 19, 1998, including visits with human rights advocates working under death threat, and those working to improve conditions under which women live and to better health conditions.
		TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) 1998 -- The Honduran army has revived an infamous death squad, and summary killings by police and soldiers are much more common now than in the war-torn 1980s, a human rights group charged During the 1980s, when the army mounted a counterinsurgency campaign to contain leftist.
		The prosecutor said she suspected that there are more than 48 mass graves in the area; she charged that the military has removed soil from some parts of the base, probably to destroy evidence.
	www.geocities.com /~virtualtruth/honduras.htm (1713 words)

	MCC Honduras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Honduras borders the Atlantic to the north, Guatemala and El Salvador to the west, the Pacific to the south and Nicaragua to the southeast.
		The Spanish settled mostly in the interior of Honduras, mining for silver and gold in Tegucigalpa and the surrounding mountains.
		In the 1980s, the United States used Honduras as a military base from which to combat socialist revolutions in El Salvador and Nicaragua.
	www.mcc.org /areaserv/latinamerica/honduras/history.html (651 words)

	Military of Honduras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Events during the 1980s in ElSalvador and Nicaragua led Honduras -- with US assistance -- to expand its armed forces considerably, laying particular emphasis on its air force,which came to include a squadron of US-provided F-5s.
		In January 1999, the Constitution was amended to abolish theposition of military commander-in-chief of the armed forces, thus codifying civilian authority over the military.
		Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 0.6% (FY98) This article is based on text from the CIA World Factbook
	www.therfcc.org /military-of-honduras-117326.html (188 words)

	Military News: Honduras to Pull Troops Out of Iraq, Others Look Shaky
		The U.S. military death toll in Iraq officially reached two thousand on Tuesday, with the announcement of the death of a soldier who was injured last week.
		Honduras now follows Spain in saying it will leave the coalition at a time when the United States is extending the tour of American soldiers there because of a shortage of troops and amid continuing attacks on coalition forces.
		Honduras' nearly 400 troops form part of the same division in south-central Iraq that includes some 1300 Spanish soldiers, which are pulling out as well.
	www.vnis.com /story.cfm?textnewsid=955 (724 words)

	AllRefer.com - Honduras - Military Rule and Reform \| Honduran Information Resource
		During the autumn of 1972, with the support of the military, the two parties attempted to revise the arrangements between the parties and the major labor and business groups.
		The virtual halting of agrarian reform and the killing of several peasants by the military in the department of Olancho had angered peasant groups.
		Honduras had joined other bananaexporting nations in a joint agreement to levy an export tax on that fruit.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/honduras/honduras31.html (882 words)

	Resource Information Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Honduras: Honduran Army And Its Infiltration Of Campesino Groups and Persecution Of Former Officers
		Please refer to RIC Query HND98002.ASM dated 15 January 1998 for information relating to the treatment of former members of the Honduran military who may be at risk because they are knowledgeable about abuses committed or ordered by their superiors.
		An America's Watch report indicates that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, a judicial body of the Organization of American States, in several decisions established the existence in Honduras between 1981 and 1984 of a carefully-planned and deliberate program to conduct selective kidnappings of persons believed to be linked to subversive activities in Honduras.
	uscis.gov /graphics/services/asylum/ric/documentation/Honduras3.htm (954 words)

	Derechos-Nizkor: Actividades de la CIA y los militares Argentinos en Honduras \| CIA & Argentina Military Activities in ...
		The CIA and the Argentine Army collaborated in the training of Honduran military in "anti-subversive" techniques, i.e., kidnapping, torture and death.
		Former envoy to Honduras says he did what he could.
		Honduras: cuando Negroponte y los militares argentinos la convirtieron en el infierno.
	www.derechos.org /nizkor/honduras/cia (414 words)

	Military.com
		John Vines said the Taliban were trying to regroup and regain control of the country they ruled until ousted by the United States in late 2001.
		His comments to reporters traveling with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld were the first confirmation from a top U.S. military official of reports of a Taliban resurgence out of Pakistan into Afghanistan.
		American military officials have indications the recent Taliban resurgence is spurred in part by operatives of the al-Qaida network, who have been giving the Taliban training and funding, Vines said.
	www.military.com /NewsContent?file=dod3_082103 (782 words)

	Honduras Coup 1956
		On October 21, the armed forces, led by the commanders of the army and air force academies and by Major Roberto Gálvez, the son of the former president, ousted Lozano Díaz and set up a military junta to rule the country.
		For the first time, the armed forces had acted as an institution rather than as the instrument of a political party or of an individual leader.
		For decades to come, the military would act as the final arbiter of Honduran politics...
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/hotel/honduras1956b.htm (131 words)

	Military Of Honduras Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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	CNN - Clinton praises U.S. military aid role in Honduras - March 9, 1999
		TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (CNN) -- U.S. President Bill Clinton on Tuesday praised the peaceful aid work of the U.S. military in Honduras and pledged a minor aid package for a nation devastated by Hurricane Mitch last October.
		Clinton's visit to Honduras was in part aimed at smoothing political relations that have been strained over what Washington perceived to be worrying left-wing developments in Central America in years past.
		Clinton on Tuesday addressed Honduras' reconstruction efforts in the wake of the hurricane, which caused about $3.4 billion in damage.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/americas/9903/09/clinton.latam.03 (335 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. military helicopter crashes in Honduras, killing five soldiers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — An American Black Hawk helicopter crashed in central Honduras during a night training exercise, killing five U.S. soldiers.
		The unit involved in the crash was assigned to Joint Task Force Bravo, the U.S. military command that conducts training, counter-drug, and humanitarian missions in Central and South America and the Caribbean.
		During the wars of the 1980s in Central America, the base was the main U.S. military operations center in the area.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002-12-12-honduras-crash_x.htm (433 words)

	Five U.S. soldiers killed in crash of U.S. military helicopter in Honduras - 12/12/02
		TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Five U.S. soldiers were killed in a U.S. military helicopter crash in central Honduras, the U.S. military said.
		It was headed to the U.S. base in Palmerola in central Honduras, he said.
		Espinal said the cause of the crash was not known, but that there had been heavy rains in the area over the past three days.
	www.detnews.com /2002/nation/0212/13/nation-34276.htm (313 words)

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