meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

RONALD REAGAN PART FOUR: Central America, Lebanon, Poland and Grenada

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

Politics, History, News

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

James Baker called Reagan's foreign policy "a witches brew." In one country, a longshot try for peace. In others, alliances with warmakers. Reagan's policy towards seven nations - El Salvador, Lebanon, Poland, Nicaragua, China, Grenada and Guatemala examined in this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:04.3

Are you earning and investing in the stock market?

0:07.8

In real estate?

0:09.0

How about in relationships?

0:10.7

Are you earning and investing in your life?

0:14.0

I'm Doc G, semi-retired hospice physician and host of the Earn and Invest podcast

0:18.3

where we have the 201 or next level conversations about money

0:22.1

and life. Not only how you make money and grow it, but also how you use your wealth to create a better

0:27.4

and more fulfilling existence. Join us every Monday and Thursday wherever you listen to Fine

0:32.4

Podcasts. He who fights with monsters should be careful, lest he thereby become a monster, and if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.

1:33.1

The abyss will also gaze into thee. The It is in an airport hangar in Honduras in 1982 where President Reagan meets with Rios Mont,

1:39.4

a military leader and now president of Guatemala after a coup.

1:45.8

Because Rios Mont was a fundamentalist Christian, he was popular with many in Washington.

1:51.2

He was indeed the head of his own church called the Church of the Word.

1:57.9

He is a great man, Reagan said at the meeting, totally dedicated to democracy.

2:04.7

Sure, he may have taken over as dictator, but he scheduled elections next year. That pledge of an election next year was good enough for Reagan to remove all

2:09.4

restriction on his government receiving military aid, restrictions that had been in place since 1974.

2:15.9

You know, he was elected in 1974 and never got the chance to be

2:20.2

president. Reagan informed reporters. That wasn't exactly the case. Mont had lost the election and then

2:29.2

lost a runoff vote in the legislature. Thirty years after the handshake in the hangar, President Mont

2:37.0

was convicted, having run out his immunity in a human rights prosecution and genocide prosecution

2:42.9

that began in Spain and was transferred to the Guatemalan courts.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bruce Carlson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Bruce Carlson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.