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(Archived document, may contain errors) THIRTY MYTHS ABOUT NICARAGUA by W. Bruce Weinrod I am pleased to have the'opportunity today to discuss the U.S. and Nicaragua. Whatever one's policy conclusions concerning the U.S. roley it seems to me that it is important to reach those conclusions with a clear understanding of the facts.

By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein Guatemala Although in 2021 the US Congress issued a decree prohibiting the delivery of funds to the armies of Guatemala,

(Archived document, may contain errors) 688 January 26,1989 THE SEcuRlTyC0lMpo"T OF UeSe-lMExIco RELATIONS INTRODUCTION America faces an important security challenge on its southern border.

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Despite the widespread adoption of democratic elections andcivilian rule, and despite the development of nascent marketeconomies, Latin America is less stable and prosperous than it was10 years ago. If the Bush Administration wants to help alleviatesome the problems in the Western Hemisphere before they demandattention as the Middle East does, it must begin to support deeperreforms, update its security policy, and better articulate itsinterests in the region.

President Evo Morales is intent upon gathering unchallenged andunending power to impose "21st Century Bolivarian Socialism" inBolivia. Although pro-democracy, free-market forces appear to havescored a significant victory in a May 4 referendum about control ofthe country's mineral-rich and economically more successful easternlowlands, Morales and his followers will surely not give up theirquest to subjugate the industrious and independent-mindedDepartment of Santa Cruz.

My old AEI colleague Mark Falcoff, who I used to talk with frequently since his office was just two doors down from mine, is one of the pre-eminent Latin American experts of recent decades and author of Modern Chile, 1970-1989: A Critical History. He writes in with two propositions prompted by my item yesterday about Chiles vote against a radical constitution: First, Chileans, in spite of the Allende experience (or perhaps

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