Across Quote by John Negroponte

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

Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they…

— Daniel Ortega

It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican…

— Junot Diaz

And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.

— Alex Cox

“While the weapons were en route from communist Poland, where they had been purchased, to Portugal, US authorities lifted the arms embargo on the…

— Andrew Feinstein

Comandante Fidel Castro sent his people there into Africa, in the Caribbean; they died right alongside of others who were seeking the blessing of…

— Louis Farrakhan

“Postwar El Salvador, which another Salvadoran has described as a “casi nación” (an almost nation) sometimes seems like a small geographic space at the…

— Erik Ching

While the armed forces have intervened in the political affairs of every other Central American country over the past fifty years, with disastrous results,…

— Oscar Arias

“The first non-European power that tried to send a military expedition to America was Japan. That happened in June 1942, when a Japanese expedition…

— Yuval Noah Harari

In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I…

— Kate Adie

Between 1831 and 1891, US armed forces - usually the Marines - invaded Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia, Nicaragua, Uruguay,…

— Michael Parenti

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