Word: panama
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...challenged by Democratic Congressman Michael Barnes, chairman of the key House subcommittee on aid to Latin America. "The Administration is going to have a very tough fight on its hands on lethal aid," he said. He noted that the nations involved in the Contadora process (Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Panama) have renewed their efforts to seek a regional solution to the conflict in Nicaragua. At the same time, the Gramm- Rudman deficit-reduction plan will require cutbacks in foreign-aid appropriations; any increase to the contras could be at the expense of other nations...
FOOTNOTE: *Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Panama, Peru and Venezuela...
...United States] does not live up to its great capacity to negotiate its own internal conflicts, to find a political solution," he says. Fuentes cites the United States shaky support for the so-called Contadora process as an example. The Contadora agreement drawn up between Panama, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela represented a Latin American solution to ongoing crises in Central America. Among the proposed conditions was the withdrawal of foreign military advisers from Nicaragua. Yet as soon as Nicaragua agreed to sign the agreement, the U.S. withdrew its support. "The United States does not allow us to be what...
...years. But nearly twelve months after he took his oath of office to begin a five-year term, Nicolas Ardito Barletta, 47, a former World Bank vice president, had had enough. In a nationwide television address late last week, Barletta complained that forces within his governing coalition and in Panama's powerful, 15,000-member National Defense Forces "consider that they can no longer work with my presidency." With that, he announced that he was resigning. He was succeeded by First Vice President Eric Arturo Delvalle, a businessman with little political experience...
Barletta's tenure had never been easy. His narrow election victory in May 1984 over Populist Arnulfo Arias Madrid was marred by accusations of fraud at the ballot box. Critics also habitually charged that Barletta was manipulated by the strong-willed commander of Panama's Defense Forces, General Manuel Antonio Noriega. Last May, Barletta had to replace his entire 13-member Cabinet after the ministers resigned under pressure from restive members of his own coalition. In explaining his sudden resignation, Barletta said, "I wish to make a contribution to the keeping of peace in our country...