Word: panama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kissinger commission traveled to Mexico City and Caracas to confer with leaders of the Contadora process, the regional peace-seeking effort undertaken by Mexico, Venezuela, Panama and Colombia. The group has proposed a draft treaty that would try to stop arms shipments into and between Central American countries, get rid of foreign military advisers and promote democracy. Those goals, Kissinger said in Mexico City, "seem to be consistent with U.S. objectives, or what should be U.S. objectives." Rebellions that arise indigenously, he said, "should not be the concern of the U.S." but should be "worked out by the people concerned...
...Nicaraguan leaders also seemed convinced that an attack is in the offing. Officials said they would guarantee the safety of all foreign nationals, including U.S. embassy personnel. Such assurances were presumably aimed at preventing invaders from justifying an assault on the grounds of rescuing citizens. During a visit to Panama for talks with President Ricardo de la Espriella, Nicaraguan Junta Leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra laid out a number of possible scenarios for an invasion, including an incursion by rebels based in Honduras or Costa Rica...
Still, the rattled nerves in Managua could only have pleased the Reagan Administration in Washington, which has long sought to curb Nicaraguan support for leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. The four nations that form the so-called Contadora Group (Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela) announced last week that all the region's governments, including even a wary Nicaragua, had agreed on a schedule for substantive discussions about a comprehensive Central American peace plan. If the Big Pine II exercises and Grenada invasion have encouraged Nicaragua's cooperation, said a State Department official tartly, "so much the better...
...United States emerged from the Civil War as a major industrial power, the significance of Central America, both as a source and a conduit for raw materials became apparent to policy makers in Washington. The U.S. acted ruthlessly and often arbitrarily in guarding the zones for the future Panama Canal, and sanctioned the rapacious activities of American entrepreneurs who soon took control of the only sources of wealth in the impoverished countries, the banana and coffee trades...
...America that helped spell the end of the Alliance for Progress. "Ever since the invasion of the Dominican Republic, we've been trying to tell other countries that the U.S. has forsworn military intervention," says Sol Linowitz, a former U.S. Ambassador to the O.A.S. who helped negotiate the Panama Canal Treaty. By far the greatest cost of the Grenada invasion, and the new assertiveness it exemplifies, may be that it resurrects in Latin America the "Yankee imperialist" stereotype that the U.S. has been struggling to shake off. "Gringos out of Grenada," was the cry in front...