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Whether the rift between the U.S. and its Latin neighbors will prove serious depends on how long the Falklands dispute lasts. While the U.S. and Britain are aligned against a Latin American nation, "Hispanidad," the tradition of Latin American solidarity, will remain at the fore, overshadowing a myriad of inter-American territorial and ideological disputes, like Argentina's quarrel with Chile over the Beagle Channel. Already there are mutterings within the Organization of American States about moving the headquarters of that hemispheric coalition out of Washington, or forming a purely Hispanic rival group. Said a senior O.A.S. official: "Never...
...Argentine diplomat declared that the U.S. mediation effort was "suspended" and that his country was "technically at war" with Britain. Costa Méndez took his case to a Washington meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of American States. There Argentina intended to invoke the 1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, to which the U.S. is a party. That pact, also known as the Treaty of Rio, stipulates that an armed attack against any one of the signatories will be considered an attack against them all and provides for various sanctions against the aggressor...
Under Haiti's 1948 Penal Code, no group of more than 20 people can be formed without government permission. Some of the conclusions of a 1978 visit to Haiti of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights have been published in Amnesty International's 1981 report and are consistent with Amnesty's findings on Haiti...
Opposition in Congress to the resumption of aid appears to be fairly strong. Representative Michael D. Barnes (D.-Md.), chairman of a House committee on inter-American affairs, said an "informal agreement" exists with the Administration that would permit Congress to exercise "what amounts to a veto" on any change in U.S. policy toward Guatemala...
...more than hopeful," said a senior official, that whatever ruling coalition emerges will not only pay lip service to the required reforms but will actually carry them out. "It is not who runs the next government that's important," said Everett Briggs, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs...