Comments on: Small Arms in Latin America in the Aftermath of the NACLA Study http://www.coha.org/small-arms-in-latin-america-in-the-aftermath-of-the-nacla-study/ COHA is an NGO specialized in monitoring Latin American and Canadian Relations for more than 30 years... Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:22:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Linda Seaborn http://www.coha.org/small-arms-in-latin-america-in-the-aftermath-of-the-nacla-study/comment-page-1/#comment-32512 Linda Seaborn Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:26:31 +0000 http://www.coha.org/?p=6108#comment-32512 This COHA article implies that the Honduran military helped the FMLN by supplying arms. This is beyond imagining. The Honduran military being corrupt and selling weapons in the black market is more realistic. The Honduran military were in no way "supplying" the FMLN. And the CIA were not "supplying" Nicaragua. They were in fact attacking Nicaragua. This is more accurately detailed in the book AK-47: The Weapon that Changed the Face of War By Larry Kahaner, p116-117: "As it turned out the weapons came from an unexpected source: the Honduran military officials, hoping to cash in on the debris of Nicaragua's civil war, had raided weapons caches left over by the CIA in their country. These arms originally were intended for the Contras as Congress was preparing to cut off funding. When the Contras faded from the scene, the weapons lay unused but secured. With the assistance of professional arms dealers, they found their way to left-wing rebels in El Salvador." This COHA article implies that the Honduran military helped the FMLN by supplying arms. This is beyond imagining. The Honduran military being corrupt and selling weapons in the black market is more realistic. The Honduran military were in no way “supplying” the FMLN. And the CIA were not “supplying” Nicaragua. They were in fact attacking Nicaragua.

This is more accurately detailed in the book AK-47: The Weapon that Changed the Face of War By Larry Kahaner, p116-117: “As it turned out the weapons came from an unexpected source: the Honduran military officials, hoping to cash in on the debris of Nicaragua’s civil war, had raided weapons caches left over by the CIA in their country. These arms originally were intended for the Contras as Congress was preparing to cut off funding. When the Contras faded from the scene, the weapons lay unused but secured. With the assistance of professional arms dealers, they found their way to left-wing rebels in El Salvador.”

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