"Central America declared landmine-free" by Associated Press | June 23, 2010
GENEVA — Nicaragua has become the last country in Central America to clear its territory of antipersonnel mines, government officials said yesterday.
Yeah, that was an AmeriKan gift via the Contras back in the 1980s when the AmeriKan government was trying to secretly overthrow the DEMOCRATICALLY-ELECTED Sandinista regime.
Gee, AmeriKa seems to have a PROBLEM with DEMOCRACY when it is NOT OUR MAN who wins, huh?
Nicaragua removed and destroyed its last antipersonnel mine on April 13, the country’s Ministry of Defense said.
An announcement by Nicaragua’s president was conveyed to a meeting of signatories to the 1997 Ottawa Convention, which requires states to destroy land mines in their territory.
AmeriKa put an autograph to that?
Most of the antipersonnel mines in Nicaragua were left over from the civil war that ended in 1989, according to the Geneva-based UN office, which oversees the treaty.
Amazing how the MSM can clean up the blood and who was behind it.
Nicaragua took 21 years to get rid of the mines because it had to raise funds, get special equipment, and locate the weapons in the ground, said Colonel Spiro Bassi, the chief of the army’s engineer corps.
“There was no registry with all the mines in Nicaragua,’’ Bassi said.
We didn't tell them where our guys buried the bombs?
Related: Vietnamese Seeing Red Over Agent Orange
What do you know? Another pattern.
At least the Central Americans didn't get spattered with DU like the Serbs, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis, Somalis, and anyone else who has taken a U.S. shelling since.
They only got drug-eradicating chemical weapons like the Vietnamese.
And you wonder why people don't like AmeriKa?
Finding mines laid by rebel groups was especially difficult, and many of the mines were in mountainous areas difficult to access, he said.
Of course, THEY KNOW where THEY PUT 'EM!
Supplied by AmeriKa (probably paid for by Iran via Israel, that is what Iran-Contra boiled down to -- all at the same time the U.S. was backing Saddam against Iran, imagine that), no doubt!
“Natural disasters and impacts of hurricanes, such as Mitch, delayed the process,’’ he said. Hurricane Mitch was a sluggish storm that stalled for a week over Central America in 1998, killing nearly 11,000 people and leaving more than 8,000 missing, mostly in Honduras and Nicaragua.
Honduras is where the scum Negroponte directed CIA operations from in the 1980s, and was that coup in Honduras ever dropped quick by the coup-supporting US government, huh?
Hey, they are coups and then there are coups.
Bassi said nearly 180,000 antipersonnel mines were destroyed along with more than 2.3 million pieces of unexploded ordnance left over from the conflict.
I keep wondering who is stepping on these things.
I know why the MSM is not even bothering to bring it up.
The clearance cost about $82.2 million, with most of the funds coming from the Organization of American States, he said.
Which would all be unnecessary if they hadn't been laid over lies in the first place.
Of course, $omeone benefited.
And remember, readers, the U.S. MINED Nicaraguan HARBORS -- in itself an ACT of WAR!
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