Word: roberto
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...then Vice President as assuring the government of Honduras that it would be well rewarded if it would continue to harbor contra camps on its territory and funnel military supplies to the rebels. Bush visited Tegucigalpa on March 16, 1985. According to the evidence, he told Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova that the U.S. would carry out a promise from Reagan to increase and expedite military and economic aid in return for this help...
...documents for the first time show that Bush backed a 1985 plan to increase Central Intelligence Agency aid to Honduras as an incentive to encourage the Honduran government to support the Contras. They also identify Bush as the emissary from the United States who informed Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova that the Reagan Administration was expediting delivery of more than $110 million in economic and military aid to the Contras. Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D.-Me.) said Thursday that such quid pro quo arrangements "were clearly inappropriate, possibly illegal, and involved the United States...
Photograph by Roberto Brosan...
...moderation but comes from a traditionally rightist background. He is the product of privilege and a 1968 graduate of Washington's Georgetown University who heads family-owned coffee and pharmaceutical businesses. Cristiani became active in ARENA a year before the 1984 presidential election. Its candidate then, party founder Roberto d'Aubuisson, was strongly opposed by the U.S. because of his alleged ties to the notorious death squads. Party leaders, eager to transform ARENA's tough image, chose Cristiani to personify the new nonviolent party...
...Accepted McFarlane's suggestion in April 1985 that the President telephone Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova to ask him to intervene with Honduran military officials who were holding up the transfer of military supplies to the contras. Reagan made the call, and the ammunition reached the rebels...