Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting in the White House Oval Office, Ronald Reagan and George Shultz sealed a surprising accord with House Speaker Jim Wright and other congressional leaders. Three days later, in a grand reception room at the National Palace in Guatemala City, five Central American Presidents, including Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega Saavedra, proclaimed they had reached their own "historic compromise." And so, after six years of undeclared war between the U.S.-backed contras and the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, the battle last week suddenly became one between two rival peace plans for the region...
...months the Presidents of five Central American countries had been signaling new hopes for peace in their embattled region. The focus for that optimism was a proposal they planned to discuss at a June 25 regional summit meeting in Guatemala City. But last week, following a flutter of U.S. diplomacy in the region, the peace initiative appeared to collapse. Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte, Washington's closest ally in Central America, demanded a postponement of the meeting. Meanwhile, President Reagan held a hastily arranged, one-hour session at the White House with the author of the peace plan, Costa Rican...
...March 1985 memo to Robert McFarlane, then National Security Adviser, North described proposed deliveries of $8 million worth of weapons and ammunition to a Central American country, known to be Guatemala. He enclosed "end-user certificates" attesting that the weapons would be used in that country. Actually, the memo made clear, "all shipments will be . . . turned over to" the contras. This plan seems to violate the Arms Export Control...
Slideshow on Guatemala--Andres Fajardo '86-87, Winthrop House, Feer Hall...
...skein. Last month Cerezo met with President Daniel Ortega Saavedra in Nicaragua. The Sandinista leader reiterated his refusal to negotiate with the U.S.-backed contras, but the two agreed to keep talking. Cerezo's critics believe his attempt to be an honest broker in the Nicaraguan conflict has jeopardized Guatemala's ties to the U.S. This year American military aid was slashed to $2.4 million, less than half the 1986 level. While Guatemalans suspect that the reduction is Washington's way of showing its displeasure, U.S. officials deny that. Congressional sources say the decrease was merely the result of Gramm...