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...Mexico relationship has acquired considerable drama as the U.S.'s big Latin neighbor confronts its worst economic crisis in 40 years. Against this background, 35 U.S. corporate, philanthropic and university leaders joined 15 TIME editors and company officers on a five-day Newstour of Mexico and Panama. Like the seven other such trips sponsored by TIME in the past 20 years, the tour was designed to provide our Newstour guest journalists with a reportorial view of the events and issues confronting the top officials in the countries on the itinerary. It permitted the participants to join...
...seem to be advancing Washington's hope of isolating Nicaragua. Quite the contrary: U.S. pressure against Nicaragua has roused the old fear of bullying intervention in Central America's internal affairs, even in nations that have little sympathy for Nicaragua's Marxist line. For example, Panama's sugar industry is severely depressed, and many workers at the mills are on layoff. But Panamanians insist that they will spurn any part of Nicaragua's sugar quota that might be offered to them. As for the Washington-supported military campaign of the contras, many Central Americans echo...
Theodore Roosevelt bragged, as if he had created the Panama Canal with his bare hands, "I took the Canal Zone, and let Congress debate." Teddy's battering-ram shoulder did wonders, but private concerns had already made attempts to cut through the isthmus, even in failure showing it could be done. T.R. knew the time was ripe. Soil conservation was a science long before Franklin Roosevelt lifted it to the top of the national agenda and we began to heal the washed and windblown land. Ike grasped the importance of a huge interstate highway system. His endorsement helped push...
...third general staff is, by the F.D.N. accounts, an all-American body. It is composed of CIA experts and representatives of the U.S. Army's Southern Command, based in Panama. This third staff is allegedly the brains of the insurgency. Its job is to pass orders to the second staff, which in turn relays them to the contra commanders. The coordinator of the separate command group activities is said by the F.D.N. sources to be John Negroponte, U.S. Ambassador to Honduras. Says a Western diplomat: "His job is to keep the Hondurans in the game. He keeps them enthusiastic...
...worldwide consequences that would result from a Communist victory in El Salvador. "If guerrilla violence succeeds," he said, ". . .El Salvador will join Cuba and Nicaragua as a base for spreading fresh violence to Guatemala, Honduras, even Costa Rica. The killing will increase, and so will the threat to Panama, the Canal and ultimately Mexico." That, he added, would advance the aims of "Soviet military theorists [who] want to tie down our forces on our own southern border and so limit our capacity to act in more distant places such as Europe, the Persian Gulf, the Indian Ocean...