Word: condeca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aside from the massive infusions of economic and military aid, the U.S. has played a key role in the conception, implementation and operations of the Central American Defense Council (CONDECA). CONDECA, formally established in 1964, is a military pact between U.S.-supported right-wing Central American military dictatorships (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua) for the purpose of preventing "communist subversion" in the region. CONDECA has direct links with the CIA, and is regularly advised by the Department of Defense via the U.S. Army Southern Command in Panama...
According to the CONDECA pact, troops from the different countries cross one another's borders when there appears to be a particularly strong threat of insurgency in one of the countries. November 1976 witnessed he presence of Guatemalan, Salvadoran, and, according to some reports, U.S. troops in Nicaragua. That operation resulted in the deaths in combat of two FSLN leaders. As recently as October 1977, U.S. military officials have been seen with National Guard patrols on counter-insurgency operations...
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