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...Administration fears a horrifying, though hardly realistic, potential scenario: the Sandinista army storming up though Honduras, linking forces with its revolutionary allies in El Salvador, and driving on through Guatemala and into Mexico. The prospect of an armed Communist bulwark on America's southern flank is what Reagan dreads most. But the governments of Nicaragua's neighbors do not seem as concerned, in part because they believe the U.S. would immediately jump to the rescue. "We're not really afraid of a Sandinista invasion," says one Honduran military officer. "They wouldn't make it to Tegucigalpa before the 82nd Airborne...
Though the supply of Nicaraguan arms to the rebels in El Salvador has allegedly tapered off somewhat in the past four years, Salvador President Jose Napoleon Duarte insisted in an interview with TIME last week that the Sandinistas are still providing the rebels with support as well as sanctuary. Said he: "There is no doubt that there is a whole centralization of the guerrillas' efforts in Nicaragua." In Guatemala, the Sandinistas have helped leftist guerrillas make a modest comeback after their insurgency was nearly exterminated by a massive campaign launched by the Guatemalan military...
Honduras is the one anomaly in Central America: though it is somewhat wary of its southern neighbor Nicaragua, in fact it is more fearful of its historic rival, El Salvador. Indeed, some Hondurans fear that if Duarte ever mops up the Salvadoran rebels he will turn his American-trained army on Honduras in order to settle some long-standing border disputes...
...governments of the nearby Latin American democracies--Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama--have tried not to get caught in the cross fire between Managua and Washington. So far their policy has been to maintain passable relations with the Sandinistas and to keep the U.S. at arm's length. In Guatemala, for instance, newly elected President Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo describes his policy as "active neutrality." Some Central American leaders are worried that the U.S. will send in the Marines to overthrow the Sandinistas and thereby plunge the whole region into a conflagration. The Sandinistas...
...proved no more successful than has throwing money at the contras. The Reagan Administration rejected a proposed treaty drafted by the group in 1984 that would have required the U.S. to break off its support of the rebels as well as its military assistance to El Salvador and Honduras without demanding any democratic reforms in Nicaragua...