Word: colombia
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Short of sending in the Marines, what is the best way for the U.S. to deal with the Sandinistas? It is an awkward fact that the U.S. can find no official support anywhere in Central or South America for sponsoring the contras. Indeed, eight Latin American countries--Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Peru--joined last month to urge the U.S. not to aid the contras, but rather to press for a regional peace treaty...
...governments of Latin America are by and large willing to let Nicaragua have its revolution. They are more interested in negotiating safeguards designed to keep Nicaragua from spreading insurrection to their countries, in short, a policy of containment. In 1984 the so-called Contadora group --Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Panama--got Nicaragua to agree to a proposal to reduce the size of its army and expel foreign advisers. The U.S. balked at the proposal, however, because it set no timetables for the departure of Nicaragua's Cuban advisers, offered no means of verification and did not address internal reforms...
Moreno said he was speaking for Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela...
...indictments against as many as 50 Eastern Air Lines workers, mostly baggage handlers, who allegedly had smuggled a billion dollars' worth of cocaine into Miami in the cargo bellies of jets. Customs officers routinely find large caches of cocaine aboard flights from the main producing countries, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. Inspectors at Miami International Airport found a near- record shipment of 3,227 lbs. of cocaine in January aboard a cargo jet owned by Avianca, the Colombian national airline. Agents discovered the drug when they opened 55-gal. barrels of passion fruit in syrup and found football- shaped containers...
...most prominent of the diplomatic initiatives has been that of the Contadora group, composed of Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama, and named for the Panamanian island where its representatives first met in 1983. But the Contadora process up to now has proved no more successful than has throwing money at the contras. The Reagan Administration rejected a proposed treaty drafted by the group in 1984 that would have required the U.S. to break off its support of the rebels as well as its military assistance to El Salvador and Honduras without demanding any democratic reforms in Nicaragua...