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...fund a rebel army and enforce a trade embargo against Nicaragua. We pay Honduras to house the Contras. We even send money to right-wing think tanks in Costa Rica in an attempt to destabilize the regional negotiations of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize...
...message and sometimes the meaning, the outcome can be critical. Bush vs. Ortega is not a World Series, but it is a ( measure of Bush's response to a defiant bush leaguer. "Not a relaxed setting," Bush told TIME last week, recalling the encounter at the Costa Rican summit on democracy. "But I was not going back to refusing to shake somebody's hand." He was harking back to 1954, when Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of State John Foster Dulles ignored the outstretched hand of Chou En-lai in Geneva, humiliating the Chinese Premier and further complicating the dismal relations...
Word of Ortega's decision spread throughout the delegations as the leaders turned their attention from closed-door diplomacy to an evening of dining and socializing. The two-day Costa Rican conference ends today with the dedication of a plaza marking 100 years of democratic government...
...fact, when Byrne first started composing for Rei Momo, he would bring music he recorded on his fourtrack to Milton Cardona, a Puerto Rican musician living in New York...
While these journalists share a commitment to cover Latin communities here and abroad, they are divided over which language is the most effective vehicle for reaching their audience. Manuel Casiano, founder of the Puerto Rican magazine Imagen, favors Spanish, noting that 97% of Hispanic adults living in the U.S. today learned that language first. Arturo Villar, founder of Vista, and Alfredo Estrada, publisher of the upscale monthly Hispanic, argue that clinging to their native language holds Hispanics back. The effect of publishing in Spanish, Estrada says, "is to support a Spanish-speaking subclass that will always be flipping hamburgers...