Word: guatemala
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dukakis' multilateral outlook is most evident regarding Latin America. He often cites the summer of 1954, when he was living with a family in Peru at the time the CIA overthrew the left-leaning elected government of Guatemala. It was part of a pattern, he says. "Every time we intervened, we did so in the name of democracy. And almost without exception, the legacy of our intervention has been tyranny." The reasons: "We put ourselves above the law. We tried to go it alone. We tried to impose our views, instead of helping to build a democratic tradition...
...more than unity, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez seemed to be setting himself up for failure when he tried to sell his vision for regional peace to the other four Central American heads of state. But Arias' idea became reality in August, 1987, when the presidents of Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua met with Arias in Guatemala City and signed the treaty...
...site of the meeting ensured that at the least Guatemala, as the host country, would back the negotiating strategy...
...Guatemala City, the foreign ministers of the five nations held preliminary meetings but were unable to reach a consensus. Although ordinary procedures called for the ministers and the presidents to meet all together, Arias arranged for the five leaders to meet alone...
Hakim says that if one looks at the Arias plan in literal terms--putting aside the concerns about Nicaragua's civil war that inspired it--then it fares less well. Guatemala, Honduras and El Salavador all currently have internal strife or repressive regimes, he says...