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...later, as the widow of Juan Perón prepared to return to Spain, where she has lived in exile since her ouster by a military junta in 1976, a bomb was found aboard the plane. Quickly transferring to another aircraft, she told well-wishers, "Nobody dies five minutes before one's time...
Immediately after the ceremony, Shultz flew off to a surprising destination: Nicaragua, whose Sandinista government Ronald Reagan has consistently assailed as a "reign of terror" dedicated to exporting Communist revolution to the region. For 2½ hours the Secretary of State conferred with Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra at Managua's airport. After the obligatory photos, Ortega swung his chair around so as to face Shultz. Though aides were present, Shultz and Ortega did almost all the talking...
...three-phase land reform was originally proposed within months of the October 1979 coup that installed a reformist civilian-military junta. Phase 1 of the reform, implemented at the time Duarte joined the junta in March 1980, expropriated 426 private Salvadoran estates that exceeded 1,235 acres. Phase 2, calling for the takeover of farms ranging in size from 247 to 1,235 acres, encountered strong opposition from the right, including the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) led by Roberto d'Aubuisson. Under a compromise adopted last December, Phase 2 now applies only to farms larger than 605 acres...
...reformist military officers ousted Molina's successor, General Carlos Humberto Romero Mena. A year later Duarte became the junta President. He helped begin a sweeping land reform and the nationalization of local banks and export industries, thereby further alienating the oligarchy. Conservatives began calling Duarte a "watermelon"-Christian Democratic green on the outside, red on the inside-especially during the recent election campaign, when he declared that he favored a national "dialogue." What Duarte meant was that he would seek to create a climate in which any rebels who wanted to reject violence could return to take part...
What little attention the U.S. has paid, has been to use the country as a military pawn. To avoid Congressional disapproval over covert military actions in Nicaragua, Reagan requested that the then-Argentina military junta and train anti-Sandinista guerilla to attack from bases in Honderas. The Argentines agreed. But when the country tried to claim the Falkland Islands, America not only dropped its pawn like a hot potato, but supported Britain in the war. Mislead by Reagan, and by their own political naivete, Argentine leaders believed themselves wholeheartedly supported by the United States, an assumption which proved wholeheartedly wrong...