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WHAT IS IT ABOUT PEACEFUL COSTA RICA THAT seems to invite abuse? In March a group of Nicaraguans took over their country's embassy in San Jose, held 24 people hostage for 13 days, then fled with $250,000 in ransom. Last September a Honduran kidnapped Interior Minister Luis Fishman. Then last Monday five heavily armed gunmen slipped into the Supreme Court building in San Jose and took 19 magistrates and five assistants hostage. Initially the kidnappers tried to pass themselves off as Colombians, demanded $20 million, safe passage to a South American country and the release of prisoners from...
...plausible. A key operative in this supply network, Felix Rodriguez, was sent to Central America with the backing of Bush's office. Documents released in the trial of Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, moreover, show that the U.S. government offered Honduras increased economic, military and covert support in exchange for Honduran military aid to the contras. This quid-pro-quo arrangement, whose existence Bush explicitly denied in 1989, violated the congressional ban on indirect U.S. military assistance to the rebels. Documents obtained by TIME show that Reagan approved the deal and that a copy of the memo authorizing it went...
Jorge Ramon Hernandez Alcerro, Honduran ambassador to the U.S., said movements in Latin America foreshadowed the worldwide shift to wards democracy...
...Campesinos armed only with farm implements have confronted them, but no injuries have been reported so far. Last month a train packed with Fyffes bananas was derailed in northern Honduras when it hit what police said was a deliberate obstruction. The contractual dispute is working its way through the Honduran courts...
...Honduran troops intercepted a van loaded with weapons destined for the F.M.L.N. in El Salvador. The shipment was part of what the world would soon learn was a major infusion of arms designed to fuel the guerrillas' "final offensive" in November. Most of the cache had been manufactured in the Soviet Union, and the van's driver admitted having run munitions from Nicaragua to El Salvador on numerous occasions during 1989. "We knew about many previous shipments," says Aronson, "but this was a smoking gun." Summoned to the State Department, Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin was presented with a packet...