Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When TIME Correspondent James Willwerth went to Mexico City in the fall of 1980, he anticipated a fairly quiet tour of duty. Says he: "I foresaw a few stories about the Mexican oil boom, an occasional look at Nicaragua's revolution, and a side trip or two to report on Mayan ruins." He was wrong. "I had been in the region a few weeks," he recalls, "when death squads in El Salvador wiped out the entire leadership of the only center-left group trying to work within that country's system. A few days later, Salvadoran national guardsmen...
...serious. First there was the so-called "smoking Sandinista," grandly touted as a captured Nicaraguan commando who had helped lead the insurrection in El Salvador. But when police let him loose to show the way to one of his purported contacts, he disappeared into San Salvador's Mexican embassy, which said he was only a student and granted him asylum. Then there were two Nicaraguan air force defectors who were scheduled to bear witness to their country's involvement in El Salvador but by week's end were judged "not ready" to face the press. Finally, there...
These revelations take on an even more ridiculous aura in light of the excuse the Administration put forth for not backing the Mexican peace plan for El Salvador. "The Mexican plan," a senior government official said Saturday, "lacks a crucial element--a commitment by the Nicaraguans that they'll keep the hell out of their neighbors affairs...
...troops had captured a "Nicaraguan military man" who was advising local rebels. Officials in the Salvadoran security forces charged that the man, Ligdamis Anaxis Gutierrez Espinoza, had been trained in terrorist techniques in Mexico. He managed to escape from the Salvadoran authorities, they said, and reach sanctuary in the Mexican embassy in San Salvador. In Mexico City, a Foreign Ministry official said that there was indeed a Nicaraguan in the embassy, a student who attended university in Monterrey, Mexico...
Lest we forget, it was only two weeks ago that the good Secretary of State himself told Congress that a different "Nicaraguan military man" had been captured in El Salvador after being sent there by the Nicaraguan Government to help the rebels. Mexican officials immediately claimed that the man was a student travelling from their country overland through El Salvador to his home in Nicaragua. Haig never introduced that guerrilla in public...