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John Negroponte is an American diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Iraq, and Honduras, and later as the Director of National Intelligence. His distinguished career in diplomacy and intelligence highlights his commitment to global security, peace, and international cooperation. Negroponte's leadership serves as an example of how dedication to public service and a focus on collaboration can foster greater understanding and resolve international challenges. His legacy inspires future diplomats and leaders to prioritize diplomacy and global peace.
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"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."

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"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."

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"Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support."

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"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."

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"To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform."

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"I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot of generalizations."

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"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."

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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."

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"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."

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"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."

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