Word: guatemala
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...conditions in El Salvador worsen, this outcome seems ever less likely. Admits a top State Department official: "The Caribbean Basin Initiative can't save El Salvador. It can't save Guatemala either. But it can help avoid other El Salvadors." At this turbulent turn, even that would be a major victory. -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Bernard Diederich/Miami and Johanna McGeary/Washington...
...Reagan's definition, the "Caribbean Basin" includes 19 countries with a population of 39 million, stretching from Dutch-speaking Surinam in South America, to the English-speaking Bahamas 2,000 miles away in the Atlantic and Spanish-speaking Guatemala 2,300 miles away in Central America...
...anti-American guerrilla Augusto Cesar Sandino, for whom Nicaragua's ruling leftist Sandinista movement is named. The alliterative phrase He as an Enders aide said, a rueful reminder that Nicaragua is "gone." He considers El Salvador pivotal because if moderates fail to maintain power there, then to Guatemala and even Costa Rica are vulnerable to insurgency...
...answer, at least compared to other nations, is unequivocally no. Chomsky rightfully decries the excesses of such U.S.-backed regimes as the ones in EI Salvador, Guatemala and Chile. Yet he writes nary a word in criticism of left-wing dictatorships or, for that matter, the repression by Eastern Bloc rulers. By showing no tolerance for American mistakes but explaining away the sometimes "confused" policies of other nations. Chomsky undermines his own intellectual honesty...
Guevara is expected to win, at a time when Guatemala is under heavy pressure from the U.S. to hold an election that is more honest than the one that resulted in President Lucas' victory, widely regarded as fraudulent. The U.S. and the Guatemalan government want a big turnout at the polls to show that the new regime has the support of the people. For just that reason, the guerrillas will be trying to disrupt the election. Thus the increasingly open warfare in Guatemala seems likely to become even more bloody in the months ahead. -By George Russell. Reported...