Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LEADERS of Argentina's ruling military junta, faced with mass discontent and protests at home, embarked last week on a foreign adventure that has brought them to the brink of war with Britain. The invasion of the Falkland Islands was clearly a ploy to distract Argentine citizens from their domestic grievances. We can only hope that the current crisis is resolved peacefully--and that whatever settlement is reached does not reward Argentina for its flagrant violation of international...
...week wore on, however, the reasons for optimism began to fade. At first the election had looked like a stunning personal victory for Jose Napoleon Duarte, President of the civilian-military junta and the man backed by the U.S. because of his moderate reform policies. His centrist Christian Democratic Party led the balloting with a 40% plurality and 24 seats in the 60-member assembly, which will name an interim President, write a new constitution and organize national elections. The Christian Democrats hoped that after their strong showing they would easily be able to control the assembly by forming...
Thus the unresolved election could cause further political polarization and escalating civil war. At stake were not only the future government of El Salvador but also the hopes of the Reagan Administration's entire Central American policy. A repressive right-wing government could be expected to change the junta's land and banking reforms and to multiply human rights abuses, which would undoubtedly lead in turn to a cutoff of U.S. military aid. Said Reagan: "It would give us great difficulties if a government appeared on the scene that backed away from reforms that have been instituted...
...Nicaragua are far more likely. The central issues: Nicaragua's charges that the U.S. is threatening it with covert action and military invasion, and Washington's contention that the Sandinista regime is directing the left-wing insurgency in El Salvador. Daniel Ortega Saavedra, coordinator of the Nicaraguan junta, traveled to New York City last week to make his government's case before an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council. "Aggressive and destabilizing actions against Nicaragua by the U.S. Administration have been dramatically on the rise," Ortega insisted. But he called reports of American willingness...
...major disappointment was that the general failed to call for new elections and political pluralism. The next day, indeed, Ríos Montt and his fellow junta members announced that they were abolishing the congress, suspending the constitution, and would rule by decree until further notice...