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Whatever the extent of Soviet help, the Argentines seemed determined to get as much political mileage as possible out of their new overtures to the East. Last week Nicanor Costa Méndez became the first Argentine Foreign Minister to visit Cuba since Fidel Castro took power in 1959. In a startling scene, Costa Méndez embraced the Communist leader, who had done his best to stir up trouble in Latin America. Addressing a conference of nations professing nonalignment with the major powers, Costa Méndez then roundly denounced the "aggression of Great Britain" and said...
Argentine Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Méndez was sitting across from U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig as the Organization of American States met in Washington last week for an emergency session to consider the Falklands crisis. Staring directly at Haig during a virulent, 45-minute speech, Costa Méndez charged that U.S. support for Britain was "illegal and repugnant" and that the U.S. had "turned its back" on Latin America. He warned: "The future of the inter-American relationship is under threat." As Haig sat in stony silence, most of the assembled delegates gave the Argentine diplomat...
...effort to contain the damage, Haig delivered a conciliatory response to Costa Méndez. He rejected Argentina's demand for application of the 1947 Treaty of Rio, which calls upon the U.S. and 20 other signatories to come to each other's aid in the event of aggression from outside the hemisphere, on the ground that the first use of force in the Falklands crisis did not come from a non-American nation. A few days earlier, Haig had tried to patch up relations with Latin America by publicly calling upon Britain to be "magnanimous in victory...
...with blithe disregard for events in the waking world outside. On the façade of the town's posh Carlton Hotel, an electronic ticker tape mixed bulletins from the Malouines (Falklands) with screening schedules for the night's new films. While two movies about political prisoners -Costa-Gavras' Missing and a Turkish production, Yilmaz Güney's Yol - were winning the festival's top prize, the restaurants were abuzz with the latest news from Sophia Loren's pink-walled prison in Caserta near Naples. Comedy, melodrama, illusion 24 times per second. That...
...Even Costa Rica, whose stability has given it the nickname "the Switzerland of Central America," is having troubles. It currently owes nearly $4 billion in public and private debt and is in a deep recession...