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Even the country's main opposition groups, despite their criticism of the ruling junta's internal policies and dismal economic performance, have strongly backed the leadership on this issue. Explained Air Force Chaplain Father Roque Manuel Puyelli, who spent three weeks on the occupied islands: "The Argentine people are certain about this war and what it means. Only two days before the invasion everybody could sense the dissension within the country, problems with the working classes. After the invasion, all the other problems went back behind the curtain, a long way away." Not surprisingly, government officials have been...
...forming a purely Hispanic rival group. Said a senior O.A.S. official: "Never has the U.S. done so much so fast to destroy its image in Latin America." But some State Department officials still believe most Latin American nations, despite their verbal support for Argentina, are discomforted by the junta's use of force to settle its territorial dispute with Britain, and realize that their long-range economic and political interests are inevitably linked to the U.S. Says one optimistic analyst: "We should not take this lightly, but in six months it will be forgotten." One example of the attitude...
Washington's pro-British tilt, which it had little choice about adopting in the end, severely damaged what was a blossoming, albeit controversial, relationship with Argentina. The junta in Buenos Aires, shunned by the Carter Administration because of indefensible human rights violations, was courted by Reagan as a strategic ally in the anti-Communist crusade. Last year Administration officials proposed the resumption of arms sales to Argentina, which, like the U.S., is supporting the military campaign of El Salvador's government against leftist guerrillas. Some Latin American experts regarded this friendly abrazo as naive and misguided. Argued Johns...
Nevertheless, the current crisis could ease Argentina into closer ties with the Soviet Union, its No. 1 trading partner. To the dismay of the Carter Administration, the junta undermined the 1980 U.S. grain embargo against Moscow, and now sells 77% of Argentina's crop to the Soviets. "It is altogether possible that the Argentines may want to give the Soviets base rights," says Richard Helms, former director of the CIA. Even if it were to keep the Kremlin at arm's length, an Argentina humiliated by the outcome of the Falklands crisis could be dangerously destabilizing...
...Moscow dinner honoring Nicaraguan Leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra, said that the South Atlantic confrontation occurred "precisely because there are forces that are trying to preserve or restore their positions of dominance and to impose foreign oppression." In deference to his Marxist guest, Brezhnev did not embrace the junta's cause more explicitly...