Word: bolivia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which everyone else is judged: Nazis and their collaborators and, most important to Ophuls, the people who sheltered Barbie for almost 40 years. These include American counterintelligence officers who used him as an anti-Communist agent, Vatican contacts who spirited him to South America and the corrupt establishments of Bolivia and Peru that helped him earn an enviable livelihood...
...graduates of the Mason program include Carlos Salinas de Gortari, president-elect of Mexico, Pratap K. Kaul, Indian ambassador to the U.S., David Blanco Zabala, former minister of finance in Bolivia, and Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, president of Mexico...
LAST week's bomb explosion near Secretary of State George P. Shultz's motorcade in La Paz, Bolivia points to one characteristic of the Reagan Administration's Latin American policy that was previously in doubt: the United States will support governments that wage a war against drugs...
After the bombing, which the Bolivian government said was the work of local cocaine traffickers, Shultz gave a talk entitled "Winning the War Against Narcotics" at a La Paz hotel. Schultz praised Bolivia's anti-drug efforts and said that Congress "has looked at your law and your performance with great interest, and I trust that your steady commitment will convince the members of our legislative body of your serious intentions. To sum up, the drug traffickers are in trouble in Bolivia...
...denounces drugs in Bolivia, but ignores Noriega in Panama. It praises democracy in Costa Rica, but does nothing to change the situation in Chile, to say nothing of El Salvador or Paraguay. The U.S. calls for peace all over Latin America, but still funds the contras in Nicaragua...