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Other crises in the hemisphere demand speedy resolution. The President must decide whether to increase military aid to El Salvador, which is plagued by a leftist insurgency and counterviolence from the right. Last week the Administration suspended economic aid to the leftist government in Nicaragua because it was supplying arms to the guerrillas in El Salvador. Soon Reagan must make up his mind about resuming military assistance to Guatemala, which came to a halt under the Carter Administration after alleged human rights violations. During the campaign, in fact, Reagan criticized Carter's rights policy for often hurting friends...
...other countries into the vortex. Even before the start of the leftist offensive, the Carter Administration had become alarmed by evidence that the guerrillas were obtaining large quantities of sophisticated weapons from a number of sources, including Middle Eastern and East European countries as well as nearby Cuba and Nicaragua. Nicaragua appeared to be serving as the transit point for these arms. In order to "help El Salvador interdict the supply of military equipment coming in from the outside," as U.S. Ambassador Robert White put it, Washington resumed the modest $5 million military aid program that had been suspended since...
...Nicaragua, whose leftist Sandinistas have made no secret of their support for the F.M.L.N. guerrillas, was helping in other ominous ways. El Cuco, a beachside resort in the eastern part of El Salvador, witnessed an invasion by 100 guerrillas in five 30-ft. wooden boats; they almost certainly came from Nicaragua. Government forces claimed to have captured one boat and bottled up the invaders in the beach area, killing 52 of them...
...NICARAGUA...
...Cooperation between the FSLN and various branches of the Salvadorean guerrilla groups can be traced back to the mid 1970's. Salvadorean contingents participated and provided logistical support during the war in Nicaragua. Historically, cooperation between the two countries against US interventions is documented in the 1920's and during the 19th century...