Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nightclub is linked to Fantasy's In-Town Campus and the second floor of another nightclub, the Latin Quarter...
...that aid to the Contras provides the Reagan Administration with needed leverage to negotiate a settlement with the Nicaraguan government is hardly credible. The State Department has consistently denied reports of Contra atrocities and the presence of ex-Somacistas in rebel units. It has twice ignored attempts by other Latin American nations to start negotiations through the Contadora process. We heard the same rhetoric last year about negotiations; what has been done...
...Administration's campaign to stop the smugglers, an effort backed by $1.2 billion last year compared with $708 million in 1981, seems to make the outlaws only craftier and more cold-blooded. Total imports of heroin and marijuana have declined somewhat, but cocaine now flows into the U.S. from Latin America at a rate of roughly 125 tons a year, compared with about 58 tons in 1982. "Despite the rhetorical bravado and a few highly publicized successes, the U.S. effort has been a bitter disappointment," says Ted Galen Carpenter, a foreign-policy expert at the Cato Institute, a Washington research...
...about the Communist threat in Central America. But both also took pains not to demand the complete overthrow of a regime with which the U.S. still maintains diplomatic ties. In a speech last week, Shultz declared that Nicaragua could become "a Soviet and Cuban base on the mainland of Latin America, a regime whose consolidated power will allow it to spread subversion and terrorism throughout the hemisphere." Nevertheless, he offered a rational, carefully worded definition of the Administration's goals: "We want the Nicaraguan regime to reverse its military buildup, to send its foreign advisers home, and to stop oppressing...
...rebels themselves tend to be untrained and uneducated peasants. "The FDN," says Robert Leiken, a Latin American expert from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, "has shown little interest in recruiting educated, urban cadres, who tend to have political differences with the FDN leadership." According to the Administration report, contra fighters often lack the skill to read maps, maintain technical equipment or carry out tactical maneuvers...