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...These standards and ideals remain significant even though the contingencies of the real world sometimes force the U.S. and other countries to ignore them. France helped overthrow Emperor Bokassa of the Central African Republic in 1979, for example, and the U.S. played a role in deposing the governments of Guatemala (1954), the Dominican Republic (1965) and Chile...
...Sandinista leaders boast of a "revolution without frontiers," and their 50,000-man army is a larger force than needed for self-defense, according to military experts. Before his death last year, Salvadoran Rebel Leader Salvador Cayetano Carpio declared: "The revolutionary process is a single process ... Guatemala will have its hour. Honduras its. Costa Rica, too, will have its hour of glory." To hasten that hour along, the Soviets shipped Nicaragua 15,000 tons of arms last year, while the Cubans stand near by with 153,000 troops. The borders of every country in the region are porous. Honduras, flanked...
...taught in Russian. Jebsen says El Salvador is of strategic importance, but this simply isn't the case. El Salvador itself is of no military importance; it is only important because of its proximity to the Panama Canal. Thus Jebsen argues the domino theory. But El Salvador only borders Guatemala and Honduras, two countries that already have unstable dictatorships...
...burning fuse and that accuses Mondale of failing to learn "the lessons of Vietnam" in Central America Hart argues that arms might not solve problems which stem from poverty, hunger, and disease. The Senator wants the U.S. immediately to "withdraw military forces introduced into Costa Rica. El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, or Nicaragua for training exercises or any other purpose...
...story begins in a small village in Guatemala. The Xuncaxes (Enrique's and Rosa's family) and their neighbors speak of "El Norte" in almost mystical tones. Yet what they actually chat about is quite mundane--flushable toilets, electricity, and cars: Good Housekeeping magazine is their window on the promised land. What makes their prosaic vision doubly absurd is the peaceful beauty of their own surroundings: the vivid, innocent colors of the Indians' clothing and buildings; the quivering flowers and butterflies which bespeak a continual breeze; the soothing strum of a villager's harp; and the background warbling of exotic...