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It is not true that Ronald Reagan and Daniel Ortega Saavedra have nothing in common. Both hold passionate beliefs. They just happen to believe exactly opposite things, as two emotional speeches demonstrated anew last week. "I make a solemn vow," Reagan promised at an Organization of American States (OAS) meeting...
That would greatly endanger Reagan's strategy, which depends almost entirely on maintaining the guerrillas as a force capable of exerting pressure on the Sandinistas. The contras, Reagan implied in his OAS speech, are needed as "insurance" against Sandinista backsliding from the small democratic reforms that they have already instituted...
Fourth, even if all of the foregoing were not true, the idea that a superpower does not act except in conjunction with allies has become the disease of American foreign policy. Central America is without a doubt a vital American interest, but, we hear, America must not act unless Contadora...
While few delegates disputed that statement, several contradicted Shultz's claim that there is mounting sympathy in Latin America for the confrontational U.S. policy of support for the contras. "The United States insists on using force, and we reject force," complained a diplomat at the meeting. Luis Gonzales Posada, Peru...
Since the Organization of American States, of which the U.S. is a member, provides for mutual defense, the U.S. "had a duty or a right to respond [to Nicaraguan secret wars] and uphold the OAS charter."