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! LAT I ~ Ai~ER I CA REPORT
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CONTENTS
COUNTRY SECTION
i INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS ~
' Car~~bbean States With UK Ties Seek Regional Defense
(Greg Chamberlain; THE NEW STATESMAN, 4 Jun 82) . 1
ARGENTINA
Fur ther Revelations on Falklands Operation
I ~DYN, 24 Jun 82) 2
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i Nic olaides Favors 'Fu 11 Enforcement' of Resolution 502
: ~DYN, 7 Jul 82) 4
Dip lomatic Mission To Discuss Negotiation Proposal
- (DYN, 7 Jul 82) 6
~ . Ec onomist Raul Prevish on Outcome of Crisis
~ ~DYN, 15 Jun 82) 7
Mas sera Comments on Demise of Process
~ (DYN, 23 Jun 82) 9
Un i on Leaders Comment on New Economic Plan
(DYN, 6 Jul 82) 10
CUBA
Cu 1 ture Minister Clos es UNEAC Congress
(PRELA, 11 Jul 82) 11
'PRELA' Reports on In terview With Rodriguez
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EL SP~LVADOR
For.eign MinistErs Meeting Part of U.S. 'Plan' '
(PRELA, 7 Jul 82) 16 '
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Briefs
Border Incident With Ecuador 17 ~
SURINAMF i
~ Bouterse Cites Achievements on~ Li�ting Curfew
(PRELA, 2 Jul 82) 18
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~ PM041539 London THE NEW STATESMAN in English 4 J~Z 82 p 13
. [Greg Chamberlain report: "After the Falklands--the Caribbean"]
[Text] The billion pound Falklands spectacle is provoking cries from some of
Britain's former c~lonies that Mrs Thatcher isn't giving them a fair whack of
her neo-imperial defence li udget. Their sense of fair play was particularly
wounded when tlie destroyer normally stationed c:~ff Belize was sent off to the
South Atlantic at the beginning of the Falklands dispute.
! Antigua-Barbuda's liear-like deputy premier and effective ruler, Lester Bird, came
' to London last week to urge Thatcher to follow up her stand against "Argentina's
; madness'" by helping the Comm~onwealth Caribtiean to set up a strong regional
, force to defend itself against "military adventurism" ~,by neighbouring states
I~ with similar territdrial claims.
Bird accused Britain of "wea'~Pning the strength of democracy and elected govern-
ment, by slashing aid to it former possessions. "This is not the spirit of a
country that has put its foot down to the Argentines" he said, and warned that
the penniless Caribbean would have to "turn elsewhere if it di.dn't get support
; from Britain."
; In the region, Guyana and Belize live in the shadow of territorial claims by
Venezuela and Guatemala. Partly for this reason, most of their Anglo-Caribbean
colleagues have backed Thatcher's action over the Falklands. This was further
threatened the imity of th e Organisation of American States, whose founding
Latin members have long resented the new E;nglish-speaking mini-states.
But Bird and fellow conservative Caribbean leaders are also worried by what they
see as the threat of left -wing "subversion" from Cuba and its regional allies
like Grenada. They hope th at Thatcher's new awareness of the problems of small
' islands w ill lead her t o share this fear.
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~ FURTHER REVELATIONS ON FALKLANDS OPERATION
PY241625 Buenos Aires DYN in Spanish 1330 GMT 24 Jun 82 ~
[Text] Buenos Aires, 24 Jun (DYN)--According to a military source, within
the army, only the commander in chief of the ar~y, for~er President Leopoldo
~ Galtieri, and probably Gen Jose Vaquero, chief of the joint staff, and the
; heads of the units involved in the operation, knew before-hand about the
Argentine landing in the Malvinas Islands on ~ April.
~ According to the high-ranking military source, most of the major generals
' and President Galtieri's cabinet only learned about Argentina's military
- occupation of the islands on the day it was carried out.
~ Several members of the high command voiced their disagreement to Galtieri
when thE latter told *_hem about the operation, and Gen Edgardo Calvi even
' told him tiiat the corps would have liked to be given the Ghance to express
; its opinion, "although later you can make a decision you may f ind more
appropriate," he added. '
I In view of this lack of participation in the decision to rec~ver the
' Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, it has not been possible
to learn of the political and military assessments made before the operation. ~
The source added that among the many mistakes made was that of mistakenly
estimating the "position which the United States would adopt, the real war
power of Great Britain and the possible British reaction before the Argentine
military action."
~ lie added that "an evaluation of the country's economic situation was nut
done in order to try and solve it, and Minister Alemann only learned of
the operation on 2 April, and the same thing happened to the rest of the
ministerial cabinet."
Apparently the same procedure was followed in the air force, since the major
gE~nerals were reportedly notified on the Malvirias operation only 4 days
before the islands were taken.
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; Ttie sources agree that before the operation "there were no more than 10
persons in charge of everything by order of the military junta."
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It was also said that the Foreign Ministry made "an erroneous estimation on
the position which Great Britain would take."
The operation to recover rhe archipelago in the 3outh Atlantic had been
planned for June a~ July of this year, but the episode in the South Georgia
Islands involving Argentine workers who raised the Argentine flag there and
the resultant repression by British soldiers forced the San Martin Palace to
state before the military junta that "it will be very difficult to find
ano ther excuse such as this to react and begin the recovery of the Malvinas."
~ConGequently, the operation wds advanced to 2 April, according to the same
sources.
The political objective sought by the military junta through the direct
action of the Argentine troops was to activate negotiations with Great
Britain, whose government no l.onger bothered to answer notes presented by
Argentina to demand sovereignty over the islands."
But this objective was forcibly changed when Great Britain sent two-thirds of
- ~ its fleet and "everything became more complicated when the United States took
sides with Great Britain and helped it in the war," the sources concZuded.
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NICOLAIDES FAVORS 'FULL ENFORCEMENT' OF RESOLUTION SQ2
PY071606 Buenos Aires DYN in Spanish 1126 GMT 7 Jul 82
['Pext] Buenos Aires, 7 Jul (DYN)--According to military sources, the
r4ilitary Committee will hold a meeting this afternoon at 1700 at the joint
staff headquarters. During the meeting the Military Committee will discuss
issues pertaining to the papal mediation on the Beagle Channel dispute and
the consequences of the P4alvinas Islan~ls war.
'Che meeting will be attended by Gen Cristino Nicolaides, Adm Jorge Anaya,
C;en Basilio Lami Dozo, President Reynaldo Begnone and the joint staff chief.
I)uring the meeting, the Military Committee will also discuss the institu-
~ tional situation and some ideas aimed at achieving cohesion within the
armed forces since the navy and the air force have decided to withdraw from
conducting political aspects of the government.
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Yesterday Bignone said that he is "optimistic" about achieving a reconcilia-
tion and noted that an agreement has been achieved with the navy and air
force commanders to allow those officers who hold political posts to continue
in their posts.
' The sources said that in addition to these subjects, the Military Committee
' will discuss the papal mediation on the Beagle Channel and those instructions
+ that it will impart to the chief of the Argentine delegation to the mediation,
Carlos Ortiz de Rozas, who is c.urrently in Buenos Aires.
Yesterday Ortiz de Rozas gave an extensive briefing to the armed forces
- commanders on the negotiations that are being carried out in the Vatican.
~nother issue in the agend~ is the situation of Argentine officers who are
being l~eld prisoner by Great Britain as a result of the military actions in
I'uerto Argentino, in the Malvinas, and the negotiations and position that
will be adopted by the Argentine Government to achieve the liberation of
~ tliese military officers.
! 1.,t Gen Nicolaides discussed this issue during a meeting he held yesterday
evening from 1900 to 2000 at the Libertsdor buildin g with the prisoners'
~ relatives.
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During this meeting, Nicolaides reportedly noted that the present diplomatic
position of the Argentine military government "is to comply with the fu11
enforcement of UN Rzsolution 502, particularly regarding those articles
that conceLn the cessation of hostilities and the withdrawal of both Argentine
and british troops."
Some rel:~tives of tho~e who are held prisoner had reportedly expressed
concern over the initiative of some army officers--who were not identified--
to confiscate all enterprises with British capital in Argentina with the
objective of achieving the release of Arg~ntine prisoners.
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~ PY081543 Buenos Aires DYN in Spanish 1410 GMT 7 Jul 82
[Text] Buenos Aires, 7 Jul (DYN)--An Argentine diplomatic mission made up
of high-ranking officials left for Brazil today. It will also visit Venezuela
- and Mexico to "channel" a Mexican proposal regarding the resumption of
_ negotiations over the Malvinas Islands within the framework of th e UN.
, '1'he delegation is mad~ up of Ambassador Arnoldo Listre, the Argentine ad
' interim representative to the UN, who has recently been designated as
policy director general, and Raul Quijano, the chief of the permanent
; Argentine mission to the OAS.
~ Listre and Quijano left for Sao Paulo on board a plane that took off at
0800 (1100~GMT), and they will also visit Caracas and Mexico~
= Quijano and Listre will hold talks with the for.eign ministers of Brazil,
Venezuela and Mexico regarding the Mexican proposal on the Malvinas.
~ The Mexic.an proposal is designed to have the UN ca].1 on the parties to
; urgently resLm?e negotiations over the Malvinas.
Reliable diplomatic sources have said that Argentins is about to start an
intense diplomatic campaign looking toward the upcoming UN assemb ly.
T'o this effect, Listre will prestunably travel to New York after concluding
the above-mentioned mission in the.three Latin American countries, and he
will remain there until the end of July.
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COUNTRY SECTtON ARGENTIN.A
ECONOMIST RAUL PREBISH ON OUTCOME OF CRISIS
PY172012 Buenos Aires DYN in S~anish 1410 GrTi i5 Jun 82
['rext] Buenos Aires, 15 .Tun (DYN)--Argentine economist Ra.ul Prebish today
was pessimistic over the final outcome cf the crisis in the South Atlantic.
fle said that this crisis will have a decisive influence on the future of
Latin America.
'i'alking to Radio Mitre in the capital, Prebish, the founder of CEPAL (Economic
Commission for Latin America), said: "I am feeling deep sorrow because I
never expected things to turn out the way they did.
"I believe this will have a deep influence on all of Latin America. This is .
already evident, but it will be enhanced as time goes by," Prebish added.
"This is a new game of cards," Preb ish said, "of international cards, and
Argentina must wake up to Lhis reality. It must not believe that it is a
member of the developed world simply because it belongs to the white race,
b ut b ecause it has things in common with those co untries.
"W~ form part of the Third World; this is being made plausib le by the events
tliat are taking place," Prebish noted. To a question he replied: "I have
never agreed with those who believe that Argentina is a part of the Western
world.
"I have been struggling in favor of the Third World for many years, and I
believe that our country constitutes part of it. '~'his is so even thou~}i it
- diCFers basically from some of those countries, but it has many things in
common with them which are of major importance," Prebish noted.
'~'o anotlier question Prebish replied that the Third World "has many ideologies,
but this is not a problem of ideologies but of facts, of level of development,
uf subordination to the larger countries. We all share the same problems of
international trade, financing, periodic deterioration in the relationship
of exchange prices, and now we have the problem of the debt." '
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Prebish also said that "Argentina has always paid its deb ts. I recall that
clurin~; Cl~e worldwide depression, Argentina pai~l its debt despite the major
~ diffictilties it faced at that time. I hope that the present situat~on will
- allow us to pay our deb t again. But th e loans which form part of the debt
are not in keeping with economic development and with the present status of
exports. It is necessary to renegotiate the debt [coversion de la deuda].
Prebish said that the so-called "economic liberalism" ended before the
recovery of th e Malvinas Islands on 2 April 1982. Prebish noted: "I believe
tliat there was no such thing as economic liberalism, but an opening toward
' a world which is closing in on itself ever more. And now, under this
situation, that same government which called itself inspzred in libaralism
~ }~as been forced by circumstances to take measures to drastically reduce
imports."
Prubish co ncluded: "To consolidate its growth in the past, Argentina was
in need of an open and liUeral British society, which admitted Argentine
exports wit.tiout obstacle~, and with which low-interest loans cauld be
n~~otiated. tiowever, this is a bygone subject now."
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MEISSEIZl1 CONIl~'Il:NTS ON D3MISE OF PKOCESS
PY300107 Buenos Aires D'f'.V in Spanish 204~t Gl~ 23 Jun 82
[Text] Bu~nos .~ires, 23 Jun (DXN)--Foi-me~ navy cocrnnander in chief, Adm
~milio Ma:>sera, termed "lamci~table the schism in the unity of the armcd
f~~rce and reaffirmed that the process of national reorganization "has
b~~~~n defunct for a long time."
T{ie formi:r mi:m'~~ar of the military junta and current leader of the movement
f~~r. socl,~l dc~m~~cracy L�alked to~:ay about the new institutional stage and
noted that the disagreemexlts between tne ar.ned forces '4aere the result of
the army's inflexible desire to i~npose its choice for president of the
- nation." Massera said that "the disagreement with the positions oF the
- navy and the air force"--positions whose motives and principles he de-
st:ribed as correct--"prompts t~ie distortion of the nation's supreme inter-
est~ st times fraught with moral, social arid political difficulties, worsened
by the stark reality or a military conflia:~t lost within the framework of a
global cunflict, which demands a proud ar,.:epCance of emerging responsibil-
_ itics and the exercise of unity and honesty."
Massera finally sai~3 that "the announced regularization of institutions by
transferring power to be effected no later than the first months of 1984 is
very positiva," because in his belief power will be transferred to author-
ities freely choseu by the people amid clear-cut and honorable rules of the
- game without tricks or illegitima.te hopes for legacies or transferred rights
to remain in power."
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_i UNION LEADERS CONIMENT ON NEW ECONOMIC PLAN
~ PY080210 Buenos Aires DYN in $panish 1745 GMT 6 Jul 82
[!:xcerpts] Buenos Aires, 6 Jul ~DYN)--Union leaders regard as positive those
measures concerning industrial reactivation announced by Minister Jose
Dagnino Pastore, but express their concern over the possibility that the
program now put into motion could entail further sacrifices for the workers.
- The above was stated in a survey conducted among representatives of the two
CCT [General.Labor Confederation] organizations, CGT-Brasil and CGT-Azopardo,
. and of the "nonaligned group" of unions.
Horacio Alonso (court workers), member of the CGT-Brasil executive board,
said: "We believe major changes have been made in the economic policy
~ahich has been followed up to now."
Alonso added: "It is proper to note that the minister has severely criti-
cized the policy followed by the various administrations of the process
~ since March 1976." He added: "As for the implementation of the program,
we will have to wait and see its results." He noted, however, that "the plan
should meet legitimate social needs through a policy of equitable distribu-
tion which w ill ultimately promote industrial recovery."
Enrique Venturini (naval electricians) said that Dagnino Pastore was "very
sincere and frankly outlined the depth of the economic crisis the country
- has been experiencing."
Drawing conclu~ions from the minister's speech, Venturini said that "there
will be inflation" and added that "the union movement will have to further
tighten its belt, according to the minister's expressions."
He addeci that "the above will happen because all these measures are simply
designed to shitt the burden of the crisis caused by others onto the people,
~specially the workers, who will have to again sustain a great sacrifice
witliout having the assurance that these measures will be later translated
into measures which could make their real salary truly grow."
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PA121350 Havana PRELA in English 2015 GMT 11 Jul 82
['Text] Havana, Jul (PL)--Minister of Culture Armando Hart called for
combining individual talent with the creativity of the people to place the
. stress that is required by culture and the qualitative leap to which Cuba
as ~+ires . ~
The member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba in his
closing speech to th e Third Congress of the Union of Artists and Writers
[UNEACJ outlined the aspirations of the Cuban revolution in the cultural
sphere.
The closing was presided over, together with Harty by Carlos Rafael Rodriguez,
.lesus P4ontane and Antonio Perez Herrera, members and alternative members
~ of the Political Bureau Nicolas Guillen and Dominican writer and political
! figure Juan Bosch.
Hart evaluated the situation of the world in the first place due to the
capitalist econom~c crisis that affects all the countries, especially the
~ underdevelopEd including Cuba, and the threat of a new world military
conflict as a result of the arms buildup, aggressive policy of the Un~.tFd
States.
Lf it is not stopped that cour~e could lead to a new world conflagration
warned Hart who pointed out that arms have already begun to speak their
language r~f terror.
In this regard he said that culture and writers have their message of alert
to move world public opinion and lead it to confront the danger of war.
I,ater on in his remarks he called on the intellectuals to identify
increasingly with the popular movement generated in Cuba around culture.
Mything that creates artificial divisions between the people and the
artistic movement will in turn create barriers to the development of the
; cultural po].i.cy of the revolution, he said.
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llart added that there must be promotion of a very broad popular move.ment
ar~~und cul.ture in such a way as to encourage rigor and aesthetic demands and
tl?e broadest creative freedom of the masses and the intellectuals.
~verything that answers to that, tie stated, will have our support and all
that hinders it will meet with our opposition.
Only the imity of those two sources, individual talent and the creativit~
- of the people will break the historic barrier built up around "serious"
and "popular" art. In our society, he asserted, all art.must be both
serious and popular. ~
By way of example of that synthesis between the popular and the polished
~ creation of individual talent, he cited national poet Nicolas G~,illen whose
work meets the highest aesthetic demand and also has profound popular roots.
lle stressed that in Cuba today the problems of art are not conditioned by
the demands of a minority but by the h uge cultural-educational revolution
in the country that demands an incre ase in quality that will reach all layers.
He cited by way of example the 200,000 yoLmg university students and 9,000
university professors who represent a mass phenomenon in culture that
demands greater rigor.
He said that attention must be given to radio and TV due to their decisive
influence on people's taste and called for joint efforts by the UNEAC, the
Ptinistry of Culture and those media to find and apply methods to meet that
need.
He praised the graduating classes of the art schools and said that the
highest quality cadre are needed in culture.
He mentioned an agreement signed with different universities for the creation ~
of schools of arts and letters whose graduates will be able to work in the
- different fields of culture in keeping with their vocation and the needs
oE the country.
He spoke of the young creators and proposed the strengthening of the spirit
of cooperation between experien~ed artists and writers and their younger
colleagues.
There can hardly be imagined anything more alien to the individualism of
capitalist competition than that spirit of cooperation between our success-
Ful, recognized creators and their colleagues of the young generation, he
declared.
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~ PA041300 Havana PRELA in Portuguese 1230 GMT 3 Jul 82
' [Text] [No dateline as received] Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, vice president of
the Councils of States and Ministers of Cuba, has said that the USSR is the
' most important foreign factor in Cuba's economic development.
The results of the [words indistinct) Intergovernmental Commission on Econ-
oMic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation, Rodriguez told PRELA in an in-
t~~rview, again prove Soviet solidarity with Cuba.
~ He said that all important aspects of Cuba's development were discussed.
, Not only are our trade xelations with the USSR the most impurtant and de-.
cisive, he said, but there is also much Soviet participation in basic de-
velopment programs of the Cuban economy.
During the meetings [words indistinct] USSR cooperation had been discussed,
Ro~lriguez added, especially the two great textile mills that will be opened,
one this year and the other in July 1983.
, The first mill will fill Cuba's textile needs, while the second which will be
built in Santiago, will be one of the largest in the world. It will have a
~ productive capacity of 80 millio~z square meters ~of material.
~ Another important project is the Punta Go~da NickeZ Plant. xhis gigantic
, enterprise will be the biggest construction project in the country's history.
Rodriguez said that Cuba's energy problems were also discussed at the meet-
ings. He mentioned the new units to be built in the country's eastern
- sector and in [words indistinct] the Havana thermoelectric plant with a .
capacity of 1 million kilowatts. When the Cienfu~gos Nuclear-Electric Plant
starts operations, Cuba will have duplicated its present electric energy �
pro3uction, according to Rodriguez. He stressed that the search for sources
of energy was discussed at the meetings.
_ Cuba t~as been systematically exploring foL oil with USSR aid since the first
years of the revolutionary nrocess. Small-scale production has been achieved,
but with greater technical facilities and experience, in the next few years
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Cub:i c3n di~pend on the help oF the ministry of [words indistinct] to exploit
tl~~ maritime shelf.
Regarding transportation, Rodriguez pointed out that both parties will adopt
the necessary measures to improve further the organization of loading and un-
loading operations, which is a matter of great importance to Cuba.
Referring to Cuba's main economic problem~, the G~ban leader said that 1982,
1983, and 1984, will be very difficult years for two reasons: the low
~ prices of sugar and the spiralling cost of foodstuffs and manufactured
- goo3s. He said that this would cause us to review our plans and to use our
foreign currency reserves very carefully.
t1e declared that our relations with the socialist world, especially the USSR,
will insure that Cuba's development will not be stopped. Our development
will continue [words indistinct] people's welfare: Our development will
mean more factories to produce staples and to make use of our natural re-
sources,
He denounced the systematic economic aggression that the United States is
waging against Cuba. This aggression has increased to such an extent that it
. is now more intense than the struggle in the political-military field.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez said that one of the forms of aggression used by the
United States ~s i,ts campaign against sales of Cuban nickel. The United
States has systematically been waging an aggress:~ve policy. It has made
agreements with several purchasers in Europe and is trying to do the same in
Asia. .
He added that the United States has tried to prevent important loans from
being made to Cuba, and has tried to have banks from capitalist countries
withdraw their deposits from Cuban banks.
This economic aggression will hinder the economic plans laid by the Second
Congress of the Cuban Communist Party., However, it is believed that several
solutions will be found.
The Cuban vice president stressed the importance of Cuba's participation in
CEMA, which it joined 10 years ago.
Fle said that Cuba, Vietnam, and Mongolia are examples for developi,ng countries
in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. These countries should understand that
thc future will not be based on unequal relations with capitalist imperialist ,
countries, but on new relations to be establi:;hed with members of the social-
ist community.
He explained that CEMA countries are at present engaged in studying new
forms of joint multilateral cooperation with developing countries.
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CE1~IA's participation in the development of Asian, African and Ia.tin American
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PA072254 Havana PRELA in English 2030 GMT 7 Jul 82
[Text] San Jose, 8 Jul (PL)--The foreign ministers of four Central American
countries met here once again to formally set up the self-styled democratic
community of the area while Nicaragua charged it is a plan to destabilize it.
On hand for the meeting in San Salvador were rne fo,:eigr. ministers of Costa
, ~ Rica, Fernando Volio.Jimenez, Honduras, Edp,ardo Paz Barnica, Guatemala,
Eduardo Castillo and E1 Salvador, Fidel Chavez Mena.
; It was announced officially that the meeting formally set up the new political
; military pact after it was announced in January in the Costa Rican capital.
The reactionary bent of the grouping which political exp~rts say is designed
to replace the defunct Central American Defense Council (CONDECA) was
denounced by Nicaragua as an attempt to surround the Sandinista revolution.
CONDECA was a military cooperation pact.organized by reactionary regimes in
the area with Washington approval, urider the inspiration of the Somoza
regime. Its foundations re~~ched a crisis after the overtiirow of that regime
in July 1971.
The initiative to create a similar body was adopted in January by the govern-
ments of Costa Rica, Honduras and El Salvador in view of the mounting advance
of the guerrilla movem~nt in the latter country and the grave military-
political tensions caused by the United States in the region.
Initially Guatemala was not invited to join because in the view of the
or~;anizers, the regime of the time headed by Gen Romeo Lucas Garcia [words
indistinct].
Sergio Ramirez of the Nicaraguan Government jimta recalled that Nicaragua
~ and Panama were not invited to the meeting and charged that the "democratic
community" was conceived by the United States as part of a plan to surroimd
the Nicaraguan revolution.
CS~: 3020/146
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BRIEFS
BOR.DER INCIDENT WITH ECUADOR--Lima, 5 Jun (SAPORITI)-~A recent border incident
with Ecuador was virtually admitted by Prime Minister Ulloa; when a newsman
inquired about a rumor on the matter. The prime minister said, however, that
tie was certain that it was one of those events that are often difficult to
verify because of the imprecise border line in some areas, to which is added
the bad weather, which can lead to raids without any importance, precisely
beca use there is no ill intention. The minister added that there is no
reason to suppose that at present there should be any motives for alleged
tensions between Ecuador and Peru. I am sure that anything that may have
happened is the result of some fortuitous circumstance. To a question by a
newsman whether Great Britain would art3f icially be promoting a border
conflict between Peru and Ecuador, Pr3.me Minister Ulloa replied by asserting
that there is no information that can even make us think that it may have
been a border incident which may have major consequences because of being
originated from abroad. [Text] [PY052245 Buenos Aires SAPORITI in Spanish
1736 GMT 5 Jun 82)
CSO: 3010/1771
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BOUTERSE CITES ACHIEVEMENTS ON LIFTING CURFEW
PA030100 Havana PRELA in English 2310 GMT 2 Jul ~32
jTe~] Paramarib.o, 3 Jul (PL)--Commander Days~ Bouterse, leader o~ the
Suriname politica~. ~rocess, said the revolution is a historic necessity and a
greater challenge for the people.
He recalled that the government has adopted several measures to benefit the
people since young army officers took power on 25 February 1980.
He cited among the gains farm policy, price control, a lowcost housing pro-
gram and a tax cut.
- He also stressed that the well-being of the masses has been the central objec-
tive of all the steps taken.
At a ceremony to mark the abolition of slavery in Suriname, Bouterse also
announced the lifting of the curfew in force since March when a counter-
revolutionary group tried to pull a coup.
The throng gathered at the former Fort Bomika, where Bouterse and his com-
rades met 28 months ago on the eve of the overthrow of the rf.gime of Henck
Arron, hailed the measure and cheered the revolution.
Bouterse also spoke of the economic problems that continue to affect the coun-
try, wh ich attained its independence from Holland in 1975, and stated that
they are due to the inherited economic and political structure.
Everyone has the right and duty to deveiop on the basis of their own effort.
Th~refore the revolution is not an elegant word, b ut a historic need and, at
the same time, a greater challenge for the Suriname people. ~
In his speech, he harshly scored colonialism and imperialism and called on
the people to promote their own forms of developmen~, learning from other
Third World countries. ,
CSO: 3025/1117 END
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