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...Honduras to teach local troops counterinsurgency techniques, but has otherwise kept a low profile. Faced with depressed prices for exports like meat and metals, the ailing Honduran economy is hard pressed to finance helicopters and other military equipment required to push the antiguerrilla campaign. President Suazo Córdova journeyed to Washington last week to seek an increase in the level of U.S. military assistance (currently $10.6 million) and economic aid ($48 million). President Reagan told Suazo Cordova that he hoped to give Honduras $17 million in supplementary military aid this year. After embracing Suazo Córdova warmly, Reagan...
Honduras. Although it is Central America's poorest country, and is threatened by the possible spillover of neighboring upheaval, Honduras has good cause to rejoice: last December its voters made Roberto Suazo Córdova their first freely elected civilian President since 1971. The election was the result of two years of U.S. pressure on the corruption-riddled regime of General Policarpo Paz García. Though still in its fragile infancy, Honduran democracy can serve the region as a salutary model of popular government, and an example of the positive leverage that Washington can wield under the right conditions...
...Garcia, has agreed to cede power to a civilian government that will be elected next year. Last April's voting for a Constitutional Assembly gave a majority to the old Liberal Party, which was last in office in 1963, and made its leader, Roberto Suazo Córdova, 53, the front runner in next spring's presidential contest. Meanwhile, the Paz Garcia government, relatively moderate for a military regime, has raised minimum wages and begun to redistribute land in an effort to stave off social unrest...
...itself refused to deal directly with Somoza and demanded that he and his family leave the country. It further proposed-when Somoza is gone-a provisional democratic junta and offered three possible "representatives": Industrialist Alfonso Robelo Callejas, 38, Lawyer-Writer Sergio Ramirez Mercado, 36, and Lawyer Rafael Córdova Rivas, 54, who had helped establish the foremost anti-Somoza political coalition, UDEL (Democratic Liberation Union...
Manuel Córdova-Rios is a simple man. He draws no moral from his experience; his descriptions of jungle cures and tribal society are tantalizing rather than complete. Still, he is a superb storyteller. His rich, supple prose re-creates the darkness of the rain forest-its dangers, omens and teeming, insistent life...