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...Ramos, joined Chomsky in denouncing Israel. After raising his first to the cheering audience. Ramos proceeded to claim that 82 percent of the armaments shipped to El Salvador originate in Israel and that since 1975. "Israel has been the number one military supplier to one of the worst violators [Guatemala] of human rights in the history of the world...
...American involvement in Central American elections, this latest episode is nothing short of a disgrace. For years, whoever happened to be sitting in the Oval Office rubber stamped the blatantly fixed elections of former Nicaraguan dictator Anastassio Somoza. A similar policy has prevailed for dealing with equally corrupt Guatemala since 1954, when a U.S.-instigated coup deposed the democratically elected, but leftist, Arbenz government. And the Reagan Administration points with pride to its role in conducting and monitoring the March 1982 elections in El Salvador certainly not the model of democratic procedure some have claimed they were since the ballots...
...Sandinistas Nicaragua is hardly a paradise on earth. But it is an immeasurable improvement over Somoza. And measured by an accurate yardstick, human rights excesses in Nicaragua are considerably fewer than in El Salvador or Guatemala. If we allow them enough breathing room, the Sandinistas could produce a truly democratic form of government. Instead, by hindering the efforts Managua is making to improve the present system, we are only choking off the erratic first breaths of an ideal our country supposedly advances...
After the conference, McGinn said he will begin working on a plan to sponsor a conference on the quality of education in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras...
...diplomatic nonchalance, there is little doubt that Mexico is concerned about the trends south of its border. Neighboring Guatemala's campaign against leftist insurgents in its northern region has driven an estimated 80,000 Indians across the Mexican border and into refugee camps in the impoverished state of Chiapas...