Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Department released a white paper, backed up by an 18-in.-high stack of documents reportedly captured from Salvadoran guerrillas. The white paper was designed to back up Administration charges that the guerrillas had been promised 800 tons of rifles, submachine guns and other arms from the Soviet Union, Cuba, Viet Nam and Hungary and had actually received 200 tons. The paper asserted that most of the weaponry had been smuggled from Cuba through Nicaragua. The evidence in it had already been presented to European and Latin American officials in private briefings. Hardly anyone outside the Communist world seemed...
That is emphatically what the U.S. does not want: its aim is to help the junta crush the guerrillas. To that end, the Administration is floating a variety of ideas, and Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese even hinted at a blockade of Cuba to stop the arms flow. The most likely moves are an added $30 million to $40 million in military aid to the junta, including patrol boats and helicopters-and the sending of U.S. military advisers to El Salvador. Six Navy training and maintenance advisers have already been ordered there. In an obvious attempt to test public opinion, Senate...
Fuentes is skeptical about U.S. claims that Cuba and the Soviet Union are aiding the leftist guerrilla coalition, the Democratic Revolutionary Front (FDR), asserting that the presence of these two countries in El Salvador is minimal and has little ideological impact on the FDR itself. "To say the root of the problem is Soviet and Cuban arms is poppy cock," he says emphatically. "The FDR would be fighting anyway...
...United States, Fuentes believes, is to further develop relations with other Third World nations by diversifying trade and developing greater political ties. Such efforts began with the last president, Luis Echeverria, and have been intensified under current President Lopez Portillo. Most recent attempts have been statements defending Cuba and agreements with Venezuela to provide 30-percent oil credit to Central American and Caribbean oil-importing nations...
Womack downplayed the importance of reports that the Soviet Union and Cuba are sending arms to Salvadoran guerrillas, noting that recent events are part of a 25-year-old Central American...