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However, the news story reported an event whose light coverage was disproportionate to its significance: it was a matter-of-fact account of a thwarted CIA plot to overthrow Surinam's government. Convinced that the South American country's leader Lt. Col. Desi Bouterse might be soft on Communism. America's favorite foreign policy arm hatched a scheme to oust his regime, which seized power in a military coup in 1980. According to The Times' report, the CIA plan called for a paramilitary force composed primarily of Surinamese exiles to infiltrate the capital city and take over the government Maybe...
...Times, the Congressional committees rejected the CIA plan not because they housed any philosophical objection to overthrowing a foreign regime that the U.S. finds distasteful, but rather because they considered such action unwarranted in the case of Bouterse's government. Committee members were not convinced that the Surinam government posed a threat to U.S. security interests; hence, they viewed the proposed overthrow as unduly extreme...
Poverty and lagging economic development have long plagued the nations of the Caribbean basin, which stretches from the Bahamas off Florida to Surinam in South America, 2,000 miles away. The region's islands and Central American countries sorely lack the skilled manpower and other key ingredients of modern industry. The hot, tropical area simply remains the developed world's supplier of raw materials like sugar, coffee, cotton and bauxite, the ore from which aluminum is made...
...Reagan's definition, the "Caribbean Basin" includes 19 countries with a population of 39 million, stretching from Dutch-speaking Surinam in South America, to the English-speaking Bahamas 2,000 miles away in the Atlantic and Spanish-speaking Guatemala 2,300 miles away in Central America...
That situation did not arise. The new government of Surinam, eager to dispel any notions that the coup might be another situation like Iran's, in which foreigners were held hostage, arranged for the departure of the researchers, who returned Wednesday night...