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...Washington's two-track approach-promoting negotiations in each country while giving military support to the government in El Salvador and the guerrillas in Nicaragua-has met with little success. In the past fortnight, two events took place in Costa Rica, a neutral neighbor, that illustrate both the hope and the frustration of finding a peaceful solution to the region's two civil wars. The first event: four noted Nicaraguan dissidents, who are opponents of the Sandinistas but are not associated with U.S.-backed guerrillas, offered to act as intermediaries between the Nicaraguan government and the insurgents...
...political figure who had the most to lose from last week's gamble was Salvadoran President Magaña. Yet Magaña was not present in Costa Rica. Just as the U.S. doubts whether Ungo can deliver his fighting comrades to the negotiating process, there is a question as to whether Magaña can maintain the support of the Salvadoran military and the right wing. Rightist elements in the military have repeatedly emphasized that they are fearful of being sold out by centrist politicians in the name of a "dialogue" with the rebels...
...this reason, Stone's stopover in San Salvador was a crucial prelude to the talks he hoped to have in Costa Rica. Apparently he convinced Magaña and other Salvadoran leaders that the U.S. would not be sacrificing their cause and that the planned meeting in San José could be valuable. Neither Magaña nor any other prominent officeholder objected publicly to the meeting, and even Roberto d'Aubuisson, leader of the far-right Republican Nationalist Alliance (ARENA) declared, "If [Stone] thinks it convenient to talk to the guerrillas and give us his recommendations...
...week earlier, even as the Costa Rican government was making preparations for last Saturday's failed meeting, the four Nicaraguan dissidents had announced in San José an "initiative" to try to end the civil war in their own country. The offer was significant because all four are prominent Nicaraguans who had been active in the insurrection against Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, were once colleagues of the Sandinistas and today live in exile. The men are Arturo Cruz, the former junta member and Nicaraguan Ambassador to Washington who quit in November 1981; Alfredo César, who like Cruz...
...left-wing authoritarianism. This requires that the weight of the U.S. must have a positive rather than a negative character. The Americans can say that the Panama Canal is vital to U.S. [security], and no one is going to argue with them. However, for the Panamanian or the Costa Rican in the street that does not justify the price of hegemonic domination by national oligarchies. One cannot say that what is happening in Central America is a fight between Communism and democracy because the Somozas ruled for 40 years, with very good friends...