Editing Gustavo Álvarez Martínez (section)

===National Security Doctrine===
In addition to this counter-intelligence squad, Álvarez negotiated military aid through the DSNwith the then ambassador of the United States of America [[John Dimitri Negroponte]], organizing himself for it, the joint exercises between the US and Honduran military, which began in Puerto Lempira with an influx of 4,000 local soldiers and hundreds of Americans. These exercises cost between 10 and 30 million US dollars. By 1984 [Washington D.C.|Washington]] economic aid to the military was $4 million in the fiscal year of the 1980s and about $77.5 million in total. Military aid skyrocketed from $3.9 million in 1980 to $77.5 million in 1984, falling to $41.1 million in 1989, $2.7 million in 1993, and just $425,000 in 1997. . To which the United States Department of Defense announced that it would send around 33,000 more elements, at most some 4 airfields, some 450 square miles of military fields, and a special base that served as the operations center for both the "US ARMY" command and the CIA, known as Palmerola, in Comayagua. The downside of all this was that some 12,000 Honduran peasant farmers had been left without land to farm. Apart from that, it was the creation of the "fearsome" military base of El Aguacate, center of operations and torture of US, Nicaraguan and local secret agents, near the border with Nicaragua and used as a training base by the "cons". At the end of the government of Dr. Suazo Córdova, in January 1986, a strong offensive by Nicaraguan guerrillas (5,600 combatants) entered Honduran territory, taking around twenty towns in an area of more or less 279 square kilometers. within the departments of El Paraíso and Olancho. The consequences of the armed confrontations between "contras" and "guerrillas" were devastating for Honduran society as a whole, which lived in fear. Curfews were decreed; citizens could not meet at night, there were secret police and military patrols in the main cities, a civilian could not grow a beard and hair, recruitment for those over 18 years of age was mandatory and minors who fell in raids, they were transferred to the nearby battalions.