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Jose Napoleon Duarte of El Salvador and Raúl Alfonsin of Argentina, two leaders who symbolize democracy, peace and social justice for Latin America...
...demanded stringent austerity measures by Argentina in return for its help, chiefly a reduction in public spending. But President Raul Alfonsin, installed in December after eight years of military rule, feared that too much austerity would cause civil unrest, possibly toppling his fragile democratic regime. The government drafted a letter of intent in June in which it said it would try to tighten its belt, but that was not enough for the IMF, which wanted more concrete austerity plans. It rejected Argentina's as inconsistent and unworkable...
...certain that the military dictatorship produced the greatest, most savage tragedy in our history." These words were the conclusion to 50,000 pages of testimony and evidence issued last week by Argentina's National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons. President Raul Alfonsin had appointed the panel shortly after he was sworn in last December. Its mission: to investigate the so-called dirty war waged against terrorism by the Argentine military from 1974 until Alfonsin's election...
...vanishing after the military took power in a 1976 coup. Large numbers were tortured to death in "subhuman" makeshift centers that lacked ventilation, plumbing and other amenities, where jailers used methods, such as prolonged outdoor burial up to the neck, that were "unknown in other parts of the world." Alfonsin thanked the commission for its "hard, painful, heroic work" but did not indicate whether he would prosecute or even release the names of those accused of the crimes. The 60,000 citizens who demonstrated outside the presidential palace after the report's release definitely wanted...
While the debt bomb has still to be defused, its tick is much softer than before. "The international financial system has the capacity to handle the Latin American debt crisis," said Economist Arnaldo Musich, an unofficial adviser to Argentine President Raul Alfonsin. Robert Solomon, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, agreed: "The countries can grow out of it. The world can grow...