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By Michael Dobbs, Washington Post Staff Writer
It has been two decades since John D. Negroponte left his post as ambassador to Honduras, but the man President Bush (news – web sites) has chosen to become the United States’ first intelligence czar is still being hounded by human rights activists such as Zenaida Velasquez.
Their paths first intersected in 1983, when Velasquez asked for the ambassador’s help in tracing dozens of Hondurans, including her brother, allegedly kidnapped by agents of the U.S.-backed Honduran military. Little came of the meeting, and the disappearances continued for at least another year.
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