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...Cuba, too, the Falklands present an opportunity to insinuate itself with Argentina and other Latin American neighbors after years of isolation. Havana's ambassador to Buenos Aires, Emilio Aragones Navarro, went so far as to say that "we ought to be fighting. The cause of the Malvinas is the cause of Cuba, of Latin America and of the Third World." Yet despite the self-serving rhetoric of the Soviets and their clients, the majority view is that the Falklands will not inflate into an East-West showdown. "Frankly, I do not see the danger of this escalating to that...
...Nicaragua claimed that it was eager for talks with the U.S. The top U.S. diplomat in El Salvador proposed that the country's government should "consider options to end the massacre," which was interpreted to mean talking with the rebel leaders. Earlier, an American envoy had flown to Havana for talks with Cuban President Fidel Castro, suggesting to some that the two major Caribbean Basin antagonists might agree to work directly on easing tensions in the region. But beneath these surface signs of flexibility, there remained serious doubts within the Reagan Administration about what might emerge from all these...
...possibility that the U.S. might want to establish a Cuban connection was particularly intriguing. Washington has long insisted that Havana's efforts to export its revolution, with the help of its Nicaraguan ally, is a prime cause of the four-year-old Salvadoran civil war. In early March, Secretary of State Alexander Haig secretly dispatched his favorite troubleshooter, General Vernon Walters, to Havana to press this point. Castro reportedly told Walters, a former deputy director of the CIA, that while Cuba supports the Salvadoran leftists, it is not currently supplying them with arms. Castro expressed his readiness to address...
...first such overture. Haig had had a private meeting with Cuban Vice President Carlos Rafael Rodríguez last November in Mexico City. From the U.S. perspective, the discussions have not gone as well as they might have, since the Cubans refuse to address the problem of Havana's adventurism in Latin America and Africa. Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Enders told a House Appropriations subcommittee last week: "We have tried to talk with Cuba in the past, and it would be wrong to rule out trying again. But the record is daunting...
...charging that Cuba has increased its arms shipments to Salvadoran rebels in the past few months in an attempt to disrupt the upcoming election of a constituent assembly there. The weapons flow has "reached unprecedented peaks," the report said, since guerrilla leaders met with Cuban President Fidel Castro in Havana in December. No intelligence data were released to support the charges...