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...about to let Brazil's precarious economy, the world's tenth largest, collapse. Reagan also went south to reaffirm his Administration's antagonism toward the hemisphere's first Marxist regime (Fidel Castro's Cuba) and the latest (Sandinist Nicaragua). His stops in Costa Rica and Honduras symbolically isolated Nicaragua, which is wedged in between. Reagan also conferred with President Alvaro Magafta of El Salvador and Guatemalan Strongman General Ephrain Rios Montt, both of whom face leftist insurgencies. Though Reagan made it a point not to go to either of their countries, the sessions were controversial...
...crowds were thoroughly pro-Reagan at the next stop, Costa Rica, the most stably democratic and pro-U.S. country in Central America. The left wing charges that Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge, in office just seven months, is Washington's pawn, seduced by U.S. aid ($70 million in 1982). Indeed the money is crucial just now: the country's economy is in a recessionary tail spin...
...soldiers would have to enlist in the cause. One of the few men who could make that happen is Eden Pastora Gómez, 46, a popular hero of the Sandinista revolution who grew disenchanted with the revolution and fled Nicaragua in July 1981. Pastora has since surfaced in Costa Rica, and the CIA would apparently tike to enlist his aid. But Pastora adamantly refuses to sign up. He shuns the F.D.N., which he sees simply as a front for the CIA and the Somocistas. Alvarez Martinez, for his part, wants nothing to do with the onetime Sandinista, whom...
...will meet briefly with Salvadoran President Alvaro Magana and Guatemalan leader Gen. Efrain Rios Montt in Honduras. The U.S. is spending several hundred million dollars a year in military assistance to prop up governments in El Salvador and Guatemala and to topple the Sand inista regime in Nicaragua. Costa Rica and Honduras, concerned by the Nicaraguan arms buildup, are diverting more and more funds to the military. Most of this money could be put to more productive use as a stimulus for Latin American economies...
...negotiate the problems in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala instead of confronting them head on with muscle, military aid could be cut significantly. Then Congress would have funds to finance the positive measures of the Carribean Basin plan. Similarly, if the U.S. reaches an agreement with Nicaragua, both Costa Rica and Honduras would likely spend less on defense and hence more on immediate economic concerns...