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Although it forbade torture and assassination on paper, the CIA knew it was happening in Honduras. [7] Indeed, the CIA helped train hundreds of Latin American dictatorships' police officers via both its infamous training manuals and the School of the Americas, now renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC).
The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, [1] is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. The official print version is available from the Government Publishing Office.
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This is the list of countries by number of Internet hosts, based on 2012 figures from the CIA World Factbook. [2] Several dependent territories, not fully recognized states, and non-state territories are also listed. The European Union host is mostly composed of French, Polish and German hosts.
This is a list of estimates of the real gross domestic product growth rate (not rebased GDP) in Latin American and the Caribbean nations for the latest years recorded in the CIA World Factbook. Nations are not included if their latest growth estimate was for a year prior to 2014. The list contains some non-sovereign territories.
Mestizos (meaning mixed European and Amerindian) have been reported by the CIA World Factbook to be about 87% of the population of Honduras. [13] As in other Latin American countries, the question of racial breakdown of a national population is contentious.
Honduras is a transshipment point for drugs and narcotics; illicit producer of cannabis, cultivated on small plots and used principally for local consumption; corruption is a major problem. Parts of this article are based on text from the CIA World Factbook.
The UN World Bank cites the IMF as the source for their data on Current Account Balance, and so is not included separately on this page. The second list includes only countries for which the CIA World Factbook lists 2015 estimates for both Current Account Balance and GDP.