Word: tela
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EXPERTS say the accords, signed in Tela, Honduras, by the leaders of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Guatemala, signal the end of the Contras. Most assuredly, the United States will not be able to wield as much influence in the region when the threat of the Contras no longer exists...
...Tela accords also are impossible to implement because no consensus was achieved on whether demobilization could be forced on the Contras...
...Contras will have to disband soon. After eight years of fighting, they have played little role in the political outcomes in the region--a fact illustrated by the Tela accords that failed to include them...