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Particularly galling to many Mexicans are the efforts by some Administration officials to invoke the domino theory to justify U.S. policy in Central America. Despite a crippling economic crisis that has produced triple-digit inflation and a foreign debt of nearly $90 billion, Mexico does not see itself as the final battleground if the U.S. does not draw the line against Marxist advances elsewhere in the region. They resent the implication that they too are a banana republic, and suspect that talk of Mexico as the ultimate domino is only a smokescreen. As Foreign Minister Bernardo Sepulveda Amor told TIME...
...fears that unrest in Central America could affect Mexico. I do not subscribe to the domino theory at all. Each society has its own identity and its own political and economic institutions, and the idea of a society's being contaminated ideologically from other sources is incorrect. We are not in danger of being polluted in any manner whatsoever by the Central American political conflicts. We have already had our own revolution, which established a strong political and social infrastructure...
...domino theory, often discussed during the Viet Nam War, is even more of a reality today. The Third World and underdeveloped countries are the immediate prey of the Soviet Union. The security of the free world is being threatened to a frightening degree. Both covert and overt aid should be given by the free governments to all nations that find themselves the targets of Soviet meddling in their affairs...
...were the first domino...
...Reagan Administration's greatest concern about the Sandinista regime is its avowed role in what its leaders call "a revolution without frontiers." Although the domino theory has been unfashionable since Viet Nam, it is increasingly apparent that the nations of Central America are vulnerable to a spreading Communist revolution. Even many liberals see this as a danger to the region. Morton Kondracke, the executive editor of the New Republic, last week compared the situation in Central America with what happened in Indochina in 1975 after Congress denied funds to South Viet Nam. He wrote in the Wall Street Journal...