Diplomatic Quote by Stephen Kinzer

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

During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion around the…

— Stephen Kinzer

Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

— Elliott Abrams

Honduras has become a murder capital of the world; there's horrible atrocities, infanticide, murder of women is way up, and people are fleeing in…

— Noam Chomsky

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international…

— Bianca Jagger

[Cuba's goverment] is an anti-American government.

— Marco Rubio

No one from Charter Cities, can have any financial interest in any project in Honduras; no one can accept consulting fees from the Honduran…

— Paul Romer

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

— Bianca Jagger

I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had…

— Bianca Jagger

The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia but worldwide.…

— Evo Morales

No one is concerned with Central America anymore. If a million people are facing starvation in northern Nicaragua and Honduras, it's none of our…

— Noam Chomsky

Nicaragua was destabilizing Central America, meaning moving in a direction the US didn't like. So Nicaragua was crushed.

— Noam Chomsky