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It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous.
Author: John Negroponte - American DiplomatYou , People , Support , Peace
We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration.
Author: John Negroponte - American DiplomatBelieve , Face , Vote , Regret
Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras.
Author: John Negroponte - American DiplomatCareer , I Am , Early , Right
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.
Author: John Negroponte - American DiplomatDemocracy , Path , Country , Small
There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.
Author: John Negroponte - American DiplomatWar , Position , Years , Situation
I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across Honduran test, territory destined for El Salvador and I think that some of that equipment had been also to Cuba and the Soviet bloc.
Author: John Negroponte - American DiplomatThink , Some , Test , Capture
We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.
Author: John Negroponte - American DiplomatTraining , Government , Quality , Fighting
The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point.
Author: John Negroponte - American DiplomatGreat , America , Down , Small
Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.
Author: John Negroponte - American DiplomatSupport , Country , Hard , Carry
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 in several of these countries.
Author: John Negroponte - American DiplomatTime , Will , Process , War
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