Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years. — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront. — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support. — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
