Word: costas
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...before Mexico's President assured Congress that "dialogue and a negotiated solution are possible" in Central America, two of the region's nations announced that they had arrived at exactly that kind of arrangement. After a daylong meeting in Panama City, Costa Rica and Nicaragua signed an agreement allowing multinational inspection teams along their 192-mile border. The accord was a concrete step toward ending tension that began when Nicaragua attacked U.S.-backed contra guerrillas who operate from Costa Rica...
...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...
...Salvador has made no secret of its desire for military assistance from Israel. Last month the Salvadoran government conspicuously moved its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, becoming only the second nation in the world officially to recognize the holy city as Israel's capital (the other is Costa Rica). A few days later, El Salvador's interim President, Alvaro Magaña, said that he looked forward to closer cooperation with Israel...
Despite the denials, the contras operating out of Honduras and Costa Rica are most likely already receiving Israeli arms, albeit indirectly and in small doses. Israel's motive in helping the contras would not be just to curry favor with the U.S. but to strike a blow against the Palestine Liberation Organization, which helped train the Sandinistas before they overthrew the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979. During a 1980 visit to Managua, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat declared to the Sandinistas that "the links between us are not new . . . Your enemies are our enemies...