Connor Flynn's Profile

It is not the first time an active-duty unit has been tapped to help at home. In August 2005, for example, when Hurricane Katrina unleashed hell in Mississippi and Louisiana, several active-duty units were pulled from various posts and mobilized to those areas.

overthrew Jacobo Arbenz
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PBSUCCESS

1987        Under a conservative El
Salvador government the Supreme Court ruled that the Finca El Espina
coffee plantation had been illegally expropriated from the Duenas
family and should be returned.

    (SFEC, 2/9/97, p.C18)

1963, the US government sent 10 Special Forces personnel to El Salvador

Nicaragua in the early 1980s, the historian Mark Curtis found an almost universal suppression of the achievements of the Sandinista government - "remarkable by any standards" - in favour of the falsehood of "the threat of a communist takeover".

Honduras, a country which, despite huge American investment and presence throughout the '80's is now the second poorest country in Central America.

In 1981, President Reagan sent Negroponte to Honduras, a tiny country of farmers that had become Washington's base for covert military operations against the leftist Sandinistas who controlled neighboring Nicaragua.

U.S. military aid to Honduras grew from $4 million to $77.4 million. He also helped orchestrate a secret deal later known as Iran-Contra to send arms through Honduras to help the Contras in Nicaragua overthrow the Sandinista government.