Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problems of Cuba are Cuban and shall be so once more when the United States understands that by refusing to talk to Cuba on Cuba, it not only weakens Cuba and the United States, but strengthens the Soviet Union...
Needless to say, past American attempts to write the history of other nations has proved disastrous. From Cuba to El Salvador to Iran, the public record shows that Washington's ability to gauge the "popular will" of its sister nations is less than prophetic. Even if accuracy were not an issue, under what circumstances can the United States claim the right to plot against a national government? The answer can only by none. To argue otherwise is to make tangential U.S. security interests superior to the direct concerns of a country's inhabitants. While the United States may conceivably...
Furthermore, American "security interests" become dangerously elastic when Cold War dominoes are involved. The U.S. plotted to overthrow the Cuban dictatorship to keep Cuba from becoming a Soviet foothold; the CIA's Surinam caper, in turn, was intended to guard against the projected dangers of a Soviet or Cuban base in that country. The next logical step must be an overthrow on the basis of suspect pro-Surinam sympathies. And when it happens, it probably won't even make the papers...
Late last week the State Department attempted to back up its claims of Nicaraguan aid to the Salvadoran rebels by releasing its second White Paper in two years on the subject (the first was issued in February 1981). Once again Washington asserted that Cuba, with Soviet help, was trying to "consolidate control of the Sandinista directorate in Nicaragua and to overthrow the governments of El Salvador and Guatemala...
...Japanese two-way radios. Regarding arms shipments, Montenegro said, "I would get a radio signal to go to [San Salvador]. Teams had gathered together the arms shipments as they came in, and they had the responsibility for transporting them to us." The source of the clandestine arms shipments was Cuba, via Nicaragua...