Word: costas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...governments of the nearby Latin American democracies--Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama--have tried not to get caught in the cross fire between Managua and Washington. So far their policy has been to maintain passable relations with the Sandinistas and to keep the U.S. at arm's length. In Guatemala, for instance, newly elected President Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo describes his policy as "active neutrality." Some Central American leaders are worried that the U.S. will send in the Marines to overthrow the Sandinistas and thereby plunge the whole region into a conflagration. The Sandinistas...
...contras, in fact, are a source of great uneasiness to the countries they use as a haven, Costa Rica and Honduras. Costa Rica has even agreed to join Nicaragua in creating a border patrol to stop contras from moving back and forth between the two countries. The fear that the contras might turn against their hosts in Honduras is "a nightmare for all of us," admits a CIA official...
...lethal" U.S. aid this past year, the Contras have failed to hold a single piece of Nicaraguan territory. Their brutality has cost them what little popular support they may once have had. With the failure of their latest offensive most Contra units have retreated to bases in Honduras and Costa Rica...
...Instead of escalating the fighting in Central America," said House Speaker Tip O'Neill, "the President should ally with the democratic nations in the region who are committed to a peaceful resolution of the region's conflicts. They want America's diplomatic strength, not its military firepower." Indeed, both Costa Rica and Honduras have publicly expressed their misgivings about the contra program...
...principal contra army, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), consisting of about 15,000 men, is spread among four bases north of Nicaragua in Honduras. Two small rebel bases lie just inside Nicaragua to the south, close to the border, and several camps and a base are in Costa Rica. Says Enrique Bermudez, the FDN's commander in chief: "Close to 70% of our fighting force has become confined to our camps, defending them on the one hand and awaiting supplies on the other." The main contra base, in the middle of the jungle 30 miles inside Honduras, has a cluster...