Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the United States government's reservations about the plan, Contreras told the audience of about 40 people, "I am very hopeful that the Esquipulas II agreement signed in Guatemala this summer will help. At the very minimum, a cease-fire will allow more harmonious negotiations between rebel groups and the national governments...
...agreement reached in Guatemala this August grew out of the peace plan first proposed by Costa Rican president Oscar Arias in February. According to Contreras, Arias's plan was incomplete as it aimed to solve the Central American problems on a domestic level and ignored the global importance of the region...
...crowd swept to its feet as shouts of "Bravo! Bravo!" echoed through the chamber. That exuberant welcome was a measure of the respect that Arias has won on Capitol Hill for the peace plan conceived by him and signed two months ago by five Central American Presidents in Guatemala City. Arias' 30-minute address to the informal joint gathering of Congress was teeming with platitudes and somewhat short of substance, but hardly anyone could fault his message. Said the Costa Rican: "Let us restore faith in dialogue and give peace a chance...
Arias' congressional debut came amid growing suspicions that the Reagan Administration would rather not take a chance on the kind of peace envisioned in the Guatemala plan. Despite widespread support for the accord in Central America and the Congress, the White House was handing out a different message: that the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua could not be trusted to observe the accord and that continued pressure by the U.S.-backed contra rebels is needed to prod the Sandinistas toward genuine reform. In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly last week, President Reagan warned that until Nicaragua achieves...
...Presidents were able to join in endorsing a proposal for $3.5 million in nonlethal U.S. aid for the contras. The appropriation, approved the following day by the House, is intended to tide them over until the Nov. 7 start of a regional cease-fire called for by the Guatemala plan. Reagan and his Costa Rican guest also agreed that a unilateral truce promised last week by the Sandinistas would not produce an enduring peace...