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...possibility of regional war. There are contra camps in Costa Rica and Honduras. The contra leadership wants to increase its operations in Costa Rica because it is aware of the political sensitivities of the southern border. The potential for provoking an incident is much greater in Costa Rica than in Honduras because Costa Rica has more credibility. It has no army. The pretext could be that Nicaragua invaded Costa Rica or Honduras, opening the way for a U.S. intervention...
...March we had a big anti-contra campaign in the south. We pushed them into Costa Rica. But in the north, we were confronted with reinforcements coming from camps in Honduras to help contras inside Nicaragua. We crossed ten miles into Honduras and wiped out a base there. Then we went in 35 miles and hit their biggest base. These actions covered 15 days. When pressure from the U.S. was applied on the Honduran government, there was suddenly a Nicaraguan "invasion" of Honduras. President Jose Azcona told me he had information that we were going to use helicopters...
...second article quoted Nicaragua's President--"It is known that the United States has compromised the sovereignty of some neighboring countries of ours, like Honduras and Costa Rica, in order to maintain its aggression against Nicaragua." It went on to note that the World Court has already ordered the United States to stop "arming and training" Contra forces...
...sparking deeper U.S. involvement, the bill forbids U.S. military advisers to the contras to operate within 20 miles of the Honduran-Nicaraguan border, although the White House indicated it would contest this restriction. The package also provides an additional $300 million in aid to Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica, where faltering economies are far more threatening than Sandinistas...
Cruz graduated from Trenton, New Jersey's public high school, where about two-thirds of the student body drops out before graduation. The son of poor immigrants from Puerto Rico and Costa Rica, he never thought of applying to agood college, much less Harvard...