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Ironically, one problem Reagan probably won't spend too much time addressing might hold the key to averting economic disaster. While Latin America has been newsworthy of late for the turmoil of El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala, the President will visit none of those countries, though he will meet briefly with Salvadoran President Alvaro Magana and Guatemalan leader Gen. Efrain Rios Montt in Honduras. The U.S. is spending several hundred million dollars a year in military assistance to prop up governments in El Salvador and Guatemala and to topple the Sand inista regime in Nicaragua. Costa Rica and Honduras, concerned...
...REAGAN TRIED to negotiate the problems in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala instead of confronting them head on with muscle, military aid could be cut significantly. Then Congress would have funds to finance the positive measures of the Carribean Basin plan. Similarly, if the U.S. reaches an agreement with Nicaragua, both Costa Rica and Honduras would likely spend less on defense and hence more on immediate economic concerns...
...Last week, one official in Washington aid that troubles in Latin America came from "leftists, communists, and other subversives." this off-repeated White House line obscures a striking reality about Latin America: The economic chaos Reagan will find during his trop sums up the recent history of El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala as well. But in those countries, the resulting economic, social and political inequities--not a bunch of revolutionary communists--led to upheaval. Reagan hopes to avert a similar mess in the nations he will visit this week. Such a worthy goal might be fostered by paying a little...
...Brazilian business leader, anticipating Reagan's wish to exchange economic aid for support of American anti-socialist policies, recently said that "unacceptable or polemical" conditions of aid would be opposed. Other Latin American nations most notably Mexico and Venezuela, have strongly refused to toe that Reagen line on Cuba, Nicaragua and E1 Salvador. They are conspicuously absent from the President's schedule in the next five days...
...become more sensitive to human rights violations in El Salvador, while Roach has joined Reagan in denouncing oppression by the Marxist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua...