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...Panama City agreement was signed at a meeting of the Contadora group, composed of representatives of Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Panama. The signing, said Costa Rican Foreign Minister Carlos José Gutiérrez, "confirms the thesis that the Contadora process is a genuine and viable forum toward a peace settlement and brings confidence we will succeed in a short time." He referred to the process begun in January 1983 when representatives of the four countries met at the Panamanian resort island of Contadora to search for a peaceful solution to the Central American crisis through indirect diplomacy...
DIED. Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, 40, Colombia's Minister of Justice; by assassination, when two gunmen on a motorcycle pulled up to his car and shot him eight times with a machine gun; in Bogota. The first Colombian law-enforcement boss to wage a vigorous campaign against his country's powerful drug traffickers, Lara refused to wear a bulletproof jacket despite death threats. One of the two hitmen died immediately when the motorcycle crashed; the other, captured minutes later, claimed that "everything was arranged in Medellin," center of Colombia's $5 billion-a-year drug trade. After...
...longer in short supply, and ARDE has even built up a small air fleet of three used helicopters and eight light planes. Pastora insists that he made no deals with the "gringos" and that the funds for the equipment come from private donors in Miami, Panama and Colombia. But he wryly adds, "If the CIA goes to them to contribute, what am I going...
...allies began registering deep disapproval. In a supposedly confidential letter to some Latin American countries that promptly leaked in Colombia, French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson offered, "in cooperation with one or more European countries," to help sweep the mines from Nicaraguan ports. It was a clumsy play intended to prod Washington into adopting a less bellicose policy in Central America. No European country expressed interest in his proposal. But the concern the letter indicated was real. Said Cheysson last week: "If one accepts it [mining] in one part of the world, there is no reason not to accept...
...Latin America torture is as commonplace as it is gruesome. Among the worst offenders are Colombia and Peru, where torture has been justified as a way to combat insurgencies. Prisoners in both countries are often deprived of food, subjected to electric shock, or suspended by their arms while handcuffed behind their backs. In Paraguay torture has become an administrative tool to enforce the firm grip of President Alfredo Stroessner, who seized control of the country 30 years ago. Paraguayans who are suspected of belonging to left-wing groups are often held incommunicado in cramped cells without natural light, fresh...