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...photographs, taken in Costa Rica. EI Salvador, Peru, and Chile, capture the complexity of Latin American life in both rural and urban settings. Ginandes, who studied under master photographer Minor White, has been photographing the people and places of I Latin America since 1968 when she went to Argentina on a Harvard Summer Fellowship...
...young Costa-Rican mother holds her first child with pride-before a simple house made grand through her own decorations. An aging Gaucho upon his horse pauses, surrounded by the Argentine plains, in a moment of quiet dignity. From these photos we see that the photographer genuinely cares, and viewing these pictures...
...presidency. Last week's vote sent a message of U.S. resolve not only to the contras, who have suffered some supply shortages but have managed to remain largely intact during the cutoff (see box). The congressional turnabout also reassured other governments in the region, notably those of Honduras and Costa Rica, from whose territory the rebels stage their forays into Nicaragua. Finally, the showdown over the contras vindicated Reagan's strategy of legislative persistence, a political trademark sometimes dismissed by his critics as merely a streak of Irish stubbornness...
...contras by 110,000 to an estimated 17,000. Well supplied with Soviet arms and equipment, the Nicaraguan army has much more mobility and firepower than the rebels. Since April the Sandinistas have kept the contras on the run, pushing them north over the Honduran border and south into Costa Rica. Last month Nicaraguan troops actually drove about three miles into Honduras and shelled Las Vegas, the base camp of the largest contra faction, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN). The contras lack even the guerrillas' traditional element of surprise: Sandinista spies have thoroughly infiltrated rebel camps...
...Already Costa Rica has downgraded diplomatic relations with Nicaragua over recent border incidents. Two of its civil guardsmen were killed in an ambush that it blames on the Nicaraguan army; Managua denies responsibility. In addition, a 40-man Costa Rican patrol that went to retrieve one of the bodies was shelled from Nicaraguan territory, even though Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto had been advised of the operation and had promised no interference...