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...come. Congress thankfully blocked the arms sales, but the blunders continued. Embassy officials criticized human rights workers, explaining that a Peronist victory would best serve American interests. In November, just one month after Alfonsin's election, Robert Schweitzer, an official with the Inter-American Defense Board, slipped into Argentina to meet with top military officials, without telling the new leaders. This enraged Alfonsin--and rightly so--enough that the United States lifted the arms ban, for lack of anything better to do. But the move was too late...
AFTER a half century of virtually uninterrupted military rule, a hint of democracy has finally penetrated Argentina's totalitarian armor President Raul Alfonsin's government, succeeding a brutal military regime, offers many Argentines what it ought to offer the Reagan Administration a chance to make a Latin American nation survive and prosper And, perhaps more importantly for the U.S. Alfonsin has given the Administration a plum chance to put its money where its mouth to really work for liberty and justice...
Whether or not Argentina again turns its back on democracy may in large part be determined by what the United States does to help Alfonsin. Only if Alfonsin is able to solve his country's problems can he prove that democracy can succeed where dictatorship has failed. The new president has to overcome some serious obstacles first. Inflation runs at annual rate of 1000 percent, the foreign debt stands at $40 billion, unemployment is over 20 percent, while underemployment (the number of people who work no more than one hour each day) has reached 30 percent. But the situation...
UNFORTUNATELY, the Reagan Administration has not taken the bait. Recently, Argentina's IMF loans fell due and the country was incapable of paying them. The United States finally showed a modicum of support and gave Argentina money, but only after Mexico had taken the lead...
What little attention the U.S. has paid, has been to use the country as a military pawn. To avoid Congressional disapproval over covert military actions in Nicaragua, Reagan requested that the then-Argentina military junta and train anti-Sandinista guerilla to attack from bases in Honderas. The Argentines agreed. But when the country tried to claim the Falkland Islands, America not only dropped its pawn like a hot potato, but supported Britain in the war. Mislead by Reagan, and by their own political naivete, Argentine leaders believed themselves wholeheartedly supported by the United States, an assumption which proved wholeheartedly wrong...