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SIX YEARS AGO WE CALLED OUR REPORT on Honduras, "On the Border of War." Reagan had been in office less than a year, and we glimpsed only the beginnings of a policy that some Hondurans now refer to as "U.

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Medea Benjamin
"YOU KNOW WHAT HAVE BEEN THE RE- sults of these past 25 years of agrarian re- form?" asked Fernando Lardizabal, a landowner and former head of the conservative National Federation of Honduran Farmers and Ranchers (FENAGH). "Over $500 million dollars down the drain.
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Gregory Rabassa
The pitiless, ever-growing siege and blockade are not taking place be- cause democracy does not exist in Nicaragua, but so it never will. They are not taking place because a dic- tatorship exists in Nicaragua, but so one may again.
Bob Ostertag
As their highly touted counterin- surgency program has fizzled into political fiasco, Salvadorean military officers are trading bitter charges of incompetence, bad faith and corrup- tion with the business community and government. Superficially the Army's program, known as United to Reconstruct, has much to show for itself.
Robert Ekblad
MINAS DE ORO IS A PICTURESQUE agricultural village in a remote and mountainous region of Comayagua department. Once a site where for- tunes were made and lost in the search for gold, it now hosts an army of peasants wrestling to meet daily needs for corn and beans.
Greg Chamberlain
"We've failed this time round. We've made too many mistakes.
THE FIRST LAND RECOVERY I PAR- ticipated in was a piece of land owned by a widow named Nicolasa. She was a large landowner, a big latifun- dista.
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Worse Than Infamy "HEADQUARTERS FOR DESTRUCTION: The Behind- the-scenes story of the diabolical North American Con- gress on Latin America" A 1972 pamphlet published by The Church League of America The influence of NACLA clearly reaches within the White House itself..
Philip L. Shepherd
"Poorly pays the Devil to those who serve him well." Popular Honduran saying HONDURAN SOCIAL SCIENTIST VICTOR Meza has said that "in Honduras warfare has be- come the continuation of business by other means.
Victor Meza
Late 1979 found Honduras trapped in a high tide of revolution. On one side, the euphoric and victorious Sandinistas launched an ambitious transformation of the social order; on the other, the perhaps overconfident Salvadorean guerrillas announced their final offensive. After 16 years of almost uninterrupted military rule, Honduras was eager for a political opening. But that was not in the cards, as Washington was quick to grasp Honduras' strategic potential on the new Central American chessboard.