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- Morazanist Patriotic Front (FPM)
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- Description
- A radical, leftist terrorist group that first appeared in the late 1980s.
- Attacks made in protest of US intervention in Honduran economic and
- political affairs.
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- Activities
- Attacks on US, mainly military, personnel in Honduras. Claimed
- responsibility for attack on a bus in March 1990 that wounded seven US
- servicemen. Claimed bombing of Peace Corps office in December 1988, bus
- bombing that wounded three US servicemen in February 1989, attack on US
- convoy in April 1989, and grenade attack that wounded seven US soldiers in
- La Ceiba in July 1989.
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- Strength
- Unknown, probably relatively small.
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- Location/Area of Operation
- Honduras.
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- External Aid
- Had ties to former Government of Nicaragua and possibly Cuba.
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