Word: rodr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walters' mission was not the first such overture. Haig had had a private meeting with Cuban Vice President Carlos Rafael Rodríguez last November in Mexico City. From the U.S. perspective, the discussions have not gone as well as they might have, since the Cubans refuse to address the problem of Havana's adventurism in Latin America and Africa. Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Enders told a House Appropriations subcommittee last week: "We have tried to talk with Cuba in the past, and it would be wrong to rule out trying again. But the record is daunting...
Even as the Salvadorans prepared to vote in the middle of a civil war, political unrest continued to rumble elsewhere in the region. In Guatemala, where a guerrilla insurgency has escalated in the past year, General Angel Anibal Guevara Rodríguez was officially confirmed as the country's next President, continuing the rule by right-wingers and the military. But Guevara's election was marred by widespread charges of fraud. Warned one Guatemalan opposition leader: "Something is going to happen here. I can feel it. The will of the people has been mocked one time too many...
...potential opposition voices to President Lucas García have been silenced, and political pluralism is dead. Though García cannot legally succeed himself in next March's presidential election, there is little doubt that a like-minded rightist, such as General Aníbal Guevara Rodríguez, the Defense Minister, will move into the palace in Guatemala City...
Although it boasts the region's highest per capita income ($1,650), the country ran up a formidable $650 million trade deficit last year, mainly because of spiraling oil bills. The result has been declining growth, rising food prices and increased labor unrest. Warns Economist Angel Rodríguez Echeverria: "Unless we resolve our economic problems, Costa Rica could become vulnerable to the troubles of other Central American countries...