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...Haig concluded discussions a week ago with Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda, the prospect for negotiations between Washington and the left-wing Sandinista regime in Nicaragua seemed better than ever. Mexican President José López Portillo recommended such talks as a way to reduce the tensions arising out of the U.S. contention that Nicaragua is directing the subversion of El Salvador. "A process of negotiating may be starting," predicted Castaneda. Haig, who had earlier reacted coolly to the plan because it did not deal with arms shipments to rebels in El Salvador, said that "these differences...
Life in the village is like the tale behind the three bullet holes in the wooden door-terrifying, mysterious, obscured by fear. When the shooting began, eight members of the Ramón Portillo family had been squatting as refugees in the shuttered mansion once occupied by the village's wealthiest man, who owned all the cactus fields and a coffee finca (plantation) that stretched as far, it is said, as the volcano four miles away. On New Year's Day, guerrillas swept up the back road, firing into the village as they came. Ramón Portillo...
President José López Portillo of Mexico feels that tension in the region could be reduced through direct discussions between Washington and Havana. Said he last week: "I am absolutely certain that Cuba is willing to negotiate all the questions worrying the security of the U.S." Haig and Cuban Vice President Carlos Rafael Rodriguez met secretly last November in Mexico City, and Haig indicated in his Senate testimony last week that there have been other secret discussions. Said the Secretary: "I can assure you the President has never rejected the concept of exploring every conceivable means possible. Discussions...
...Lopez Portillo also called for the disarming of bands of anti-Sandinista guerrillas who are launching harrying attacks into Nicaragua from neighboring Honduras. At the same time, he suggested that the Nicaraguans cease the alarming military buildup that they have carried on since their revolutionary victory...
...Lopez Portillo's last suggestion drew a stony silence from members of Nicaragua's Sandinista directorate, who sat next to him on the speaker's platform. Directorate Member Daniel Ortega Saavedra offered Nicaragua's five-point plan for better relations with the U.S. and its Central American neighbors, including regional nonaggression pacts, joint patrols by the Hondurans and Nicaraguans of their border, and a commitment to free elections and political pluralism in Nicaragua. Washington responded politely but noncommittally to the proposals of Lopez Portillo, who later called the economic aspects of Reagan's Caribbean plan...