Just for fun...The Honduran Bloc Timeline

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Just for fun...The Honduran Bloc Timeline

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The Honduran Bloc Timeline

1955 – Black Swan Event: The discovery of large quantities of iridium (roughly half of the world’s accessible supply) in Honduras alters that country’s economy and its strategic importance.

1964 – Following the revolution in Cuba, Honduras forms a joint protection treaty with Costa Rica and newly independent Jamaica. All three countries purchase a small but respectable number of aircraft and smaller warships (mostly World War II or Korean War vintage...each country buys a squadron or two and a flotilla of corvette-sized vessels) from the United States and the United Kingdom. Honduras even purchases a single GUPPY-class submarine.

Officially, the arrangement is the 1964 Treaty of Kingston. Unofficially, but more frequently, it is known as the Honduran Bloc and, sometimes, by more poetic journalists, as the “Caribbean Trident.”

1965 – Cuba denounces the Honduran Bloc as a threat to regional stability. The Soviet Union sells more ships and planes and SAM missiles to Cuba. They also increase their covert assistance of FARC rebels in Colombia.

So...what happens next?
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