Central America

“Our side Jimmy Baker, Brent Scowcroft, Bob Gates and our ambassador to Canada, Ed Ney all agreed that the Soviet Union had to stop spending 5 billion dollars in Central America and Cuba before we could start giving them loans.”

Simon & Schuster: Barbara Bush

“MY BATTLES WITH CONGRESS over Central America went on for almost the entire eight years I was in the White House, and made good grist for the journalistic mill.”

Simon & Schuster: An American Life

“Canada received as many as forty-six thousand, including several thousand Indians and blacks, the British Isles about ten thousand, the British West Indies four thousand, the Bahamas two thousand, and so on; a few settled in Central America present-day Honduras and Belize; and some loyalists of German extraction returned to the Rhine Valley.”

Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

“Our best units are in Europe and Central America and Lebanon, and there's no chance we can get those troops home.”

Fictionaut: I Don’t Understand ?

“One was an attempt to undermine Shultzs effort to search for a diplomatic breakthrough in Central America by ordering a show of military force off the coast in Nicaragua.”

Simon & Schuster: In the Shadow of the Oval Office

“Bill Casey and others at the CIA drafted a plan to meet the Communist threat in Central America through a covert program that, over the next few months, would provide for the support of anti-Sandinista Nicaraguans who would try to halt the flow of Soviet-made arms from Cuba to Nicaragua and El Salvador.”

Simon & Schuster: An American Life

“Central America and Protomartyr of Florida, in attempting to establish a mission, was slain by hostile Indians near Tampa Bay.”

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI