Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott just completed a tour through Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala to learn how U.S. policy looks from Central America. "Arriving in Guatemala in the violent aftermath of last week's elections," he reports, "and meeting with defense officials, I found an embattled, suspense-charged atmosphere that reminded me of western films, in which the gunslingers are getting ready for high noon." On a different front, Washington Correspondent Johanna McGeary has also been covering the Salvadoran conflict, but long-distance at the State Department. She has been reporting what she calls "the war of the words...
...same as North Vietnamese communism criea 1980; certainly out of hand condemnations of the Sandinistas --increasingly a Leninist party, and hence a part of Sontag's menance--can be debated in ways that out of hand condemnations of Jaruzelski's Poland or Hoxha's Albania (or Garica's Guatemala...
...hopeful that out of Communism something much better might emerge?" she asks. ''''Yes, it is now proved. We were wrong. It is the people who live in those countries who tell us that." she answers. Compelling, but not convincing, at least not yet. Nicaragua and soon El Salvador and Guatemala will give us a better idea of the level of tolerance in a state where the leftist government has been installed by the people; the intermediate step of Castro's Cuba holds out some hope that they will not become tropical Czechoslovakias...
...Market and the establishment of Israel and say armageddon approacheth, an era of two of American progressive could simply watch the declining rate of profit and know that the revolution was on its way. No more, the generation that knows the truth about Kampuchea and EI Salvador, Poland and Guatemala, the Soviet Union and South Africa, must start to think anew unless it wants simply to be choosing the better of two evils at every turn...
...allowed killer brigades to wander the countryside, aimlessly murdering civilians while battling the ill-defined forces of the left? And what of the Nicaraguan bases. Cuban-built or not? They only become dangerous if interpreted as the first falling dominos in a potential avalanche tumbling across El Salvador, Hondouras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and then the shipping lanes of the Panama Canal. Wouldn't the United States be better off working toward genuine economic and social reform in those countries, improving our chance of long-term ties, rather than stubbornly endorsing the status quo and whining about the pernicious Cuban influence...