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Honduras

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Jan 1999Ratio of total U.S. disaster aid to Honduras last year to average annual U.S. military aid to Honduras in the 1980s: 6:7
Source:

Latin America Working Group (Washington)

January 18, 2007Six Honduran men were crushed to death by giant bags of coffee beans.
Source:

BBCnews.com

May 17, 2006A Honduran teenager who stole an anti-immigration protest sign in New York was facing deportation.
Source:

Breitbart.com

February 17, 2005President George W. Bush nominated John Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, as the first director of national intelligence. Negroponte was ambassador to the U.N. from 2001-2004 and ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985; he is alleged to have turned a blind eye to human rights abuses in Honduras and to have helped the Nicaraguan Contras find funds. Negroponte will oversee fifteen separate intelligence agencies and will deliver the daily intelligence briefing to the president.
Source 1:

Reuters

Source 2:

Talahassee Democrat

April 9, 2004A severed human head was found in a bag on a park bench in Honduras, where the government has been cracking down on street gangs; the bag also contained a note addressed to President Ricardo Maduro: "Maduro old man, we are so hungry we are eating people."
Source:

CNN

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