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...article "New Regime, Old Methods" [Jan. 24], based on an interview with Roberto Guillén, contains false charges against the Nicaraguan government. My government's open-door policy to visits by international human rights organizations, such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Amnesty International and Pax Christi, is sufficient to counter Guillen's baseless allegations...
...senior army officers who supported Ochoa's protest but not his tactics. In the compromise, Ochoa's reassignment to Uruguay was withdrawn. He was also promised he would not be arrested or court-martialed. Ironically, Ochoa's insubordination may earn him a prestigious assignment at the Inter-American Defense Board in Washington...
When Thomas Enders, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week to present the case for continuing economic and military aid to El Salvador, he was in a difficult spot. Under a measure enacted late last year, the Administration must provide Congress formal certification every six months that El Salvador is improving its record on human rights and expanding economic benefits to the poor in order to maintain foreign aid to that strife-torn nation. But reports had reached members of the committee that human rights violations were still taking place...
...emergency session to consider the Falklands crisis. Staring directly at Haig during a virulent, 45-minute speech, Costa Méndez charged that U.S. support for Britain was "illegal and repugnant" and that the U.S. had "turned its back" on Latin America. He warned: "The future of the inter-American relationship is under threat." As Haig sat in stony silence, most of the assembled delegates gave the Argentine diplomat a long standing ovation...
...Aubuisson the benefit of the doubt, but some members of Congress are not. Senator Paul Tsongas, a leading critic of U.S. policy in El Salvador, called the suspension of part of the land reforms a "breaking of faith." Said Democratic Congressman Michael Barnes, chairman of the House Inter-American Affairs Subcommittee: "These actions seem to confirm that the wrong guys...