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...State-of-the-art television commercials and computerized voter files are spreading rapidly to other countries. American research firms are conducting focus groups for politicians worldwide." Like old-time vaudeville acts playing the Orpheum circuit, most of the top consultants have popped up somewhere in Latin America (primarily Venezuela, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Argentina and Bolivia) since the U.S. elections last November...
FOOTNOTE: *Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica, Alfredo Cristiani of El Salvador, Vinicio Cerezo of Guatemala, Jose Azcona del Hoyo of Honduras and Daniel Ortega Saavedra of Nicaragua
...United States is upset that the accords set such an early date for the disbanding of the Nicaraguan rebels, as Secretary of State James A. Baker III told Costa Rican President Oscar Arias-Sanchez. Bush Administration officials prefer that the program take effect after the February 25 elections in Nicaragua...
EXPERTS say the accords, signed in Tela, Honduras, by the leaders of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Guatemala, signal the end of the Contras. Most assuredly, the United States will not be able to wield as much influence in the region when the threat of the Contras no longer exists...
...billion debt. Under quiet prodding from Washington, the Mexican government and a consortium of international banks have been negotiating an agreement to ease the terms of repayment. Next in line for debt relief are three other democracies whose future growth could be in jeopardy: Venezuela, the Philippines and Costa Rica...