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...positive economic growth after eight years of slump; the first foreign-exchange surplus since 1974; lower inflation; slightly less unemployment. He gave full credit to U.S. aid, which under Reagan has been generous indeed. Jamaica (pop. 2,250,000) now ranks fourth in the world in American aid per capita; only Israel, Egypt and El Salvador get more...
...sequence of events has become sadly familiar. Heavily populated (92 million) and desperately poor (per capita in come: $90 a year), the country has en joyed little political stability in the decade since it broke away from Pakistan after a savage civil war. Its first and longest period of democratic rule ended abruptly when Sheik Mujibur Rahman, who led the independence movement and subsequently became the country's first elected Prime Minister, was assassinated in 1975. In a trio of coups, Lieut. General Mohammed Ziaur Rahman emerged as strongman, only to be assassinated by junior officers last May. Sattar...
Life has become an ordeal for the people of this hauntingly beautiful land of tropical flowers, green mountainsides and winding gorges. Already burdened with the region's highest population density (593 per sq. mi.) and one of Latin America's lowest per capita incomes ($670 a year), the Salvadorans now face the possibility of economic collapse. The war has brought foreign investment to a halt, chased millions of dollars' worth of capital out of the country and crippled many transportation and communication links. The country's gross national product has dropped 19.5% since...
...over a country that feels threatened from abroad and is increasingly divided at home. The military and security forces are growing, the economy is crippled, the public increasingly disillusioned. Since July 1979, the country's foreign debt has more than doubled, from $1.5 billion to $3.5 billion, while per capita income has dropped from about $800 a year in 1978 to an estimated $650 in 1981. Instead of achieving the political democracy they promised, the Sandinistas have moved to consolidate their power by postponing elections until 1985, restricting freedom of speech, outlawing strikes, jailing some oppositionists
Enders' rhetorical questions pinpointed the reasons the Administration has taken such a firm position on El Salvador. That strife-torn country of 4.9 million people, roughly the size of Massachusetts, has the highest population density (593 per sq. mi.) and one of the lowest per capita incomes ($670 a year) in all of Latin America, and Washington is committed to support the Duarte government at a time when its survival is by no means cer tain. But the Administration fears that any slackening of U.S. support might lead to a major opportunity in Central America for Soviet-sponsored Cuba...