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...Washington the White House announced that Vice President Dan Quayle was cutting back the itinerary for his upcoming trip through the region because leaders in Mexico, Venezuela and Costa Rica found it "inconvenient" to receive him. Quayle will confine his travels, scheduled for Jan. 27 to 29, to Honduras, Panama and Jamaica. Conceded a senior White House official: "We were hoping for a grander tour than this...
...President Alan Garcia Perez of Peru, who has called the Panama invasion a "criminal act," reiterated his threat to boycott the Andean drug summit set for Feb. 15 in Cartagena, Colombia, unless U.S. troops are withdrawn from Panama. Others scheduled to attend are Bush, Colombian President Virgilio Barco Vargas and Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora...
Though a senior Administration official maintained even last week that the reaction was "mild," Latin American condemnation of the Panama invasion was publicly unanimous, especially because it came after a year of reassurances that the North-South relationship would be one of consultation and multilateral decision making. While Latin leaders acknowledge that they are glad to be rid of Noriega, his removal, they say, was not worth a violation of the principle of nonintervention. Few Latin countries have so far recognized the government of Panamanian President Guillermo Endara, and few are likely to do so as long as U.S. troops...
...Gortari had cemented a cordial relationship with Washington, based in part on U.S. promises to respect Latin American sovereignty. Now the byword in Mexico City is restraint. A spokesman for Salinas said last week ties remain "mature, stable and good" and the two countries had "agreed to disagree" on Panama...
Salinas last week dramatized his feelings on both narcotics and U.S. intervention at a ceremony honoring 70 members of the Mexican army and Federal Judicial Police who died in 1989 in the fight against drugs. In a clear reference to Panama, the Mexican leader said narcotics trafficking "has been a pretext for foreign intervention, and this is inadmissible." Though the Bush Administration would like to believe otherwise, Salinas spoke for most Latin American leaders...