Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contras do have severe problems. They are in the midst of another agonizing reorganization, as the liberal civilian leadership tries, with U.S. support, to gain control over the military (not an uncommon problem, incidentally, for American friends from the Philippines to Guatemala). Critics point to the lack of significant contra military gains until now as proof that they cannot win. Perhaps. But it is equally possible that the lack of success has to do with two years of a grossly unbalanced arms race between the contras and the Sandinistas. Such imbalances are not rectified overnight, nor do they lend themselves...
...Hakim and retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord, hired a 163-ft. Danish ship, the Veralil, to ferry weapons to the contras. The ship was loaded with Soviet AK-47 guns in Poland, then sent to Portugal to pick up ammunition. Documents said the ship was headed for Guatemala, but she docked in Honduras, where the contras collected the weapons...
...policy. The Dodd-Weicker resolution would eliminate the contra's final $40 million aid installment, allocate money to remove the contras from Honduras, and contribute funds to the Contadora negotiation group. However, Dodd-Weicker would also reinstate $300 million in economic aid--with no human rights guidelines attached--to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Costa Rica...
CONGRESS MUST begin to place human rights guidelines on all economic aid pumped into Central America. In the past, as much as 75 percent of the economic aid sent to Central American "democracies" has been used for military purposes. Guatemala, for example, has used our economic aid to further its genocide of the indigenous Indian population. And U.S. economic aid plays a vital role in bolstering the El Salvadoran military, its death squads, and its bombings of peasant villages in the northern part of the country. Lest we forget, much of the "humanitarian" aid sent to the contras has never...
...over Nicaragua on Oct. 5 while delivering weapons to contra rebels. Standing beside Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, he said, "Today has been a day of great surprises, a day I'll surely remember in my heart forever." By nightfall, Hasenfus was tucked away safely at the U.S. embassy in Guatemala City, and 24 hours after that he and his wife Sally were jetting home to Marinette, Wis. In the rush of events, Hasenfus paused at one point to pinch himself, then explained sheepishly, "I just wanted to see if I would wake...