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ALL sides publicly swear to uphold the Arias Plan, yet, as the events of the past week make clear, they privately seek to undermine it. The resulting tragedy is that the Arias Plan, which represented the only real hope for peace and democracy in Nicaragua and throughout Central America, is...
The superpower machinations in this region have been guided by the same mentality that was behind Vietnam. While the potential outcome of the deployment remains unknown and frightening for students, the first clear victim is the region's one hope for peace. The Central American countries attempted to set their...
The Sandinistas, on the other hand, are hoping to cripple severely the contra resistance--putting them in a greatly weakened position for their first high-level face-to-face negotiations within Nicaragua this week. Indeed, Costa Riean President and Nobel Laureate Oscar Arias Sanchez, who has repeatedly criticized the Nicaraguan...
Of course, long before the events of this past week, the Arias Plan was in serious jeopardy. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega had made it clear in a speech that the Sandinistas would never open up the political process to include opposition parties.
That Reagan's deployment of American troops in Central America undercuts the Arias peace plan is no suprise, that the Administration is willing to risk more American lives in pursuit of a vaguely defined foreign policy is even less of one. This attempted show of strength in Reagan's twilight...