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Title: Henry A. Kissinger Visits Honduras As Head Of US Commission On Central America
Date: 1983-10-09
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Henry A. Kissinger arrives in Tegucigalpa, Honduras to speak with Central American leaders as US President Reagan's head of the US Presidential commission on Central America October 9, 1983. Kissinger intends to promote US foreign policy in the region with increased support for the El Salvadoran government and to approve American military support for the anti-Sandinista Contra army assembling and training on the Honduran-Nicaraguan border. US Ambassador to El Salvador Thomas R. Pickering and Republican US Senator Jack Kemp, left and center, stand behind Kissinger, partially blocked.
Subject: Honduras; Civil War; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid; Insurgency; Media
Country: Honduras
Subject -- Personal Name: Henry A. Kissinger; Jack Kemp; Thomas R. Pickering; Lane Kirkland; James Wright
Local Identifier: honduras_nb_0003_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
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Title: US Ambassador To Honduras John D. Negroponte
Date: 1983-06-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: US Ambassador to Honduras, John D. Negroponte, speaks to journalists about the US government's support for the Nicaraguan Contras in his office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras June 1983. Negroponte was US Ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985 and served in the US Foreign Service from 1960 to 1997. He also served in the Bush Administration as the U.S. representative to the United Nations from 2001 to 2004 and was ambassador to Iraq from June 2004 to April 2005.
Subject: Civil War; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid; Insurgency; Nicaragua; Contra War; FSLN; Sandinistas
Country: Honduras
Subject -- Personal Name: John D. Negroponte
Local Identifier: honduras_ct_0006_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
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Title: US Ambassador To Honduras John D. Negroponte
Date: 1983-06-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: US Ambassador to Honduras, John D. Negroponte, speaks to journalists about the US government's support for the Nicaraguan Contras in his office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras June 1983. Negroponte was US Ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985 and served in the US Foreign Service from 1960 to 1997. He also served in the Bush Administration as the US representative to the United Nations from 2001 to 2004 and was ambassador to Iraq from June 2004 to April 2005.
Subject: Civil War; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid; Insurgency; Nicaragua; Contra War; FSLN; Sandinistas
Country: Honduras
Subject -- Personal Name: John D. Negroponte
Local Identifier: honduras_ct_0008_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: US Ammunition Along Honduran-Nicaraguan Border During The Contra War
Date: 1982-11-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Bullets for a US supplied M-60 machine gun lie on the ground near a Honduran army outpost along the Honduran-Nicaraguan border November 1982. US military aid to Honduras was known to be handed off to the Nicaraguan Contra army operating camps along the Honduran-Nicaraguan border. The Contras were the various US-backed and funded right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to the early 1990s in opposition to the socialist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government in Nicaragua.
Subject: Civil War; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid; Insurgency; Nicaragua; Contra War; FSLN; Sandinistas
Country: Honduras
Local Identifier: honduras_ct_0005_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: US Army Training Officer In Honduras
Date: 1983-06-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: US Army LTC Mirus observes Honduran Army soldiers during a rifle training exercise in at a base in Honduras June 1983. The US Army officers and soldiers come under the authority of Southern Command.
Subject: Training; Instructor; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid
Country: Honduras
Local Identifier: honduras_ct_0004_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: U.S.Ambassador To Honduras John D. Negroponte
Date: 1983-06-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: US Ambassador to Honduras, John D. Negroponte, speaks to journalists about the US government's support for the Nicaraguan Contras in his office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras June 1983. Negroponte was U.S. Ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985 and served in the U.S. Foreign Service from 1960 to 1997. He also served in the Bush Administration as the US representative to the United Nations from 2001 to 2004 and was ambassador to Iraq from June 2004 to April 2005.
Subject: Civil War; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid; Insurgency; Nicaragua; Contra War; FSLN; Sandinistas
Country: Honduras
Subject -- Personal Name: John D. Negroponte
Local Identifier: honduras_ct_0007_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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