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...Central America has upstaged the war. Even some contra civilian leaders have caught peace fever, declaring their intention to re-enter politics in Nicaragua and leave those in fatigues to fret about the future of the struggle. "This could be it," concedes a senior contra official in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital. "If we are cut off by Washington now, we may be finished for good...
...went awry. Three days later, when the Presidents of El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua met in Guatemala City to discuss a homegrown peace proposal, the Central American leaders allied with the U.S. felt compelled to sign their version. "What were we supposed to do?" asks a Honduran official. "Be the only ones not for peace?" One major difference between the two pacts: the Reagan-Wright plan calls upon the Sandinistas to negotiate directly with the contras, while the Guatemala accord does...
...Seaspray operatives and ISA agents, however, proved uneasy partners. They worked together out of a house in a small Honduran town, bickering over who was to be in charge. The feuding led to a formal ISA complaint about loose Seaspray security. Seaspray agents had set up a small military satellite dish outside the Honduran house, hiding it with only a plastic garbage bag. An operations security team, Yellow Fruit, flew a large commercial satellite dish to Honduras so that the Queens Hunter team could more convincingly play the part of rich Yanqui tourists...
Invited by the Sandinista Minister of Culture, Bragg calls his visit down South "an incredible eye-opener." He was able to travel around a bit, visiting medical centers around the Honduran and Costa Rican borders, and speaking to Sandinistas as well as to ordinary people...
...briefed "dozens" of times on the contras' on-the-ground progress and on the Administration's efforts to sustain the movement, McFarlane said. Occasionally, the President became directly involved in providing assistance: when Honduras blocked a shipment of arms to the contras in October 1985, McFarlane said, Reagan contacted Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova and persuaded him to release the weapons...