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...might begin to heal. For the Reagan Administration, the inauguration symbolized its most successful accomplishment in the region, what Washington saw as a showpiece of evolving democracy. "El Salvador is a dramatic example of civilized political change," said an admiring José Figueres Ferrer, 77, a former President of Costa Rica...
...attempt had rocked one of the less successful pillars of U.S. policy in Central America. Eden Pastora Gómez, the redoubtable leader of one flank of the CIA-sponsored contras, had invited about 15 reporters to his headquarters inside Nicaragua. The group was driven from San Jose, the Costa Rican capital, to the San Juan River, which serves as the border between the two countries. There the reporters climbed into two long dugouts with outboard motors and chugged up the river for two hours, until they reached a two-story wooden building. Ushered to the second floor of Pastora...
Helicoptered to San José, the guerrilla leader was taken to the city's most exclusive hospital. His men immediately turned Pastora's floor of the Clinica Biblica into a fortress, sealing off elevators and stationing heavily armed guards in the stairwells. Costa Rican authorities, anxious about their country's neutral status, placed Pastora in government custody; on Friday he was flown on a stretcher to Venezuela...
...Panama City agreement was signed at a meeting of the Contadora group, composed of representatives of Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Panama. The signing, said Costa Rican Foreign Minister Carlos José Gutiérrez, "confirms the thesis that the Contadora process is a genuine and viable forum toward a peace settlement and brings confidence we will succeed in a short time." He referred to the process begun in January 1983 when representatives of the four countries met at the Panamanian resort island of Contadora to search for a peaceful solution to the Central American crisis through indirect diplomacy...
Contadora is an effort by the four sponsoring countries to mediate among five Central American nations: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala. Both the U.S. and Cuba were specifically excluded. In July 1983, the presidents of the four Contadora states pledged to seek, among other things, "effective control of the [regional] arms race, the withdrawal of foreign advisers ... and the prohibition of the use of the territory of one state to plan military or political activities that will cause instability in other states." Meeting at the National Bank of Panama building in Panama City last September, the group...