Word: rican
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Costa Rica too has resisted U.S. attempts to turn it into a stronger military buffer against Nicaragua. Last week, in a show of independence from Washington, President Luis Alberto Monge announced that he had obtained $154 million in loans from Western European nations. The neutral Costa Rican government also ousted a contra spokesman by canceling his tourist visa...
...rocked one of the less successful pillars of U.S. policy in Central America. Eden Pastora Gómez, the redoubtable leader of one flank of the CIA-sponsored contras, had invited about 15 reporters to his headquarters inside Nicaragua. The group was driven from San Jose, the Costa Rican capital, to the San Juan River, which serves as the border between the two countries. There the reporters climbed into two long dugouts with outboard motors and chugged up the river for two hours, until they reached a two-story wooden building. Ushered to the second floor of Pastora...
Helicoptered to San José, the guerrilla leader was taken to the city's most exclusive hospital. His men immediately turned Pastora's floor of the Clinica Biblica into a fortress, sealing off elevators and stationing heavily armed guards in the stairwells. Costa Rican authorities, anxious about their country's neutral status, placed Pastora in government custody; on Friday he was flown on a stretcher to Venezuela...
...Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge implied that the Sandinistas might be responsible for the bombing, but ARDE leaders insisted that the camp area was clear of Nicaraguan soldiers. More logical culprits include ARDE members with access to the base, some of whom may have been angry enough with Pastora's decision to kill him. In the aftermath, Pastora's colleagues quickly down-played their disagreements, but the episode promised not only to delay ARDE's alliance with the F.D.N. but to strengthen Pastora's resolve against any union under conditions other than...
...Panama City agreement was signed at a meeting of the Contadora group, composed of representatives of Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Panama. The signing, said Costa Rican Foreign Minister Carlos José Gutiérrez, "confirms the thesis that the Contadora process is a genuine and viable forum toward a peace settlement and brings confidence we will succeed in a short time." He referred to the process begun in January 1983 when representatives of the four countries met at the Panamanian resort island of Contadora to search for a peaceful solution to the Central American crisis through indirect diplomacy...