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...bilateral agreements, making blustery speeches or starring in extravagant ceremonial tableaux. By contrast, Ronald Reagan's five-day trip through volatile Latin America last week was low-key. In Brazil, where Reagan spent half his time, there was no black-tie banquet, but an outdoor barbecue lunch. In Colombia, Reagan's limousine ride to the presidential palace was a few blocks, hardly a motorcade at all. On Saturday in Honduras, Reagan's final, fleeting stop, he only visited the air force base in San Pedro Sula...
...toast to President Figueiredo, to the people of Bolivia-no, that's where I'm going-to the people of Brazil, and to the dream of democracy and peace here in the Western Hemisphere." In fact, despite his salvage attempt, Reagan was headed for Bogota, Colombia, not Bolivia...
WHEN PRESIDENT REAGAN arrived in Brazil yesterday at the start of a five-day trip to Latin America, he found a country in dire economic straits. Each subsequent stop during the journey--in Colombia. Costa Rica, and Honduras--will present Reagan with a similarly gloomy picture. The central dilemma for all of these countries is the same--they depend on exports to the United States and other developed nations for economic solvency. But the industrialized world, in the midst of a recession, cannot continue to gobble up Latin American goods and spit out cash or other products in return. Instead...
...quick rundown of the situation lends itself to pessimism. Brazil has a foreign debt of about $70 billion and an inflation rate approaching 100 percent. Colombia and Costa Rica are barely surviving the sharp drop in world coffee prices, their principal export. And Honduras has the distinction of being the second poorest Latin American nation after Haiti...
...machine gun across the Biscayne Freeze's bow, ten men boarded the ship, found 31 tons of pot aboard and arrested the crew, including 22 Colombian nationals. Seven days later, federal and local officials closed in on the freighter Indomable, believed to have loaded its cargo in Colombia, as it docked in the Maine town of Bremen. They confiscated 30 tons of marijuana and arrested 24 people, including eight Colombian nationals...