ISA has therefore been engaged in a stematic diplomatic offensive to try nd overcome these obstacles as achieved more success than is widey understood.
As far as the United States is conemed Reagan has pulled out all the - even labelling all opponents enemy within'. Vietnam graved on the inside of the American ourgeoisis's skulls. Many judge mate correctly - - that a drawn-out war of intervention with possibly heavy US sualties would cost it dearly. The risk s that a war of intervention would sow he seed of a serious, mass domestic oposition for the first time since the Vieti war itself. That is why Reagan is ill encountering domestic opposition, cluding in Congress.
But sell has weignea Inese TSKS.
ided that the threat of leaving the id world to its own peoples now far the most important tactors.
has held the White House back.
Is Sulll the export of Duvalier, the installation Salvador, the cano in Honduras.
administration 'democratic' turn in US policy.
The second outweighs the threat of domestic opposition. This is extremely important to grasp because the internal opposition in the USA is, in the last analysis, one of coupled with a threat of military defeat, which No-one should be fooled into thinking that the installation of Aquino, and tivities represent a new 'democratic phase in US thinking. On the contrary, they are of a parcel with of. Duarte EI regime of Cerezo in Guatamala, and the government of Az- America.
They aim to give a democratic 'cover' for stepping up the US's military role. The removal of Marcos in the Philippines and Duvalier in Haite was to head oft revolt. It was no problem which Reagan has been applying himself is the attitude of the governments of CenTHE tional MP, COSI FMLN, nothing at all to have a treaty opposing foreign military Hallouvies It would cost the USA, however, everything Moreover treaty as it stood guaranteed Nicaragua its most impor tant political requirement, namely, the right to armed forces sufficient to meet the actual threat it faced — that of invasion from the USA. The US has never accepted that 10 May 1984 decision of the International Court of Justice calling on it to 'respect Nicaragua's right to sovereignty and political independence, which must not be called into question through military and paramilitary acpromoted outwith Early in 1984 the Washington Post published a four-page secret document from the Department of State which was sent to all US embassies in Latin 'the collapse of the tradora group,' it said, "is preferable to the signature of this document. Th US assiduously set about blocking the signing of the treaty. Six months later the treaty, which was to have been signed in November, is in abeyance and no further proposals are on the table to resume discussions around it.
The suspension of the talks on the reminded these capitalist governments that in the last analysis their interests lie with it against their own workers and peasants. The terms imposed recently on Panama led to an instant general strike. Mexico is on the verge of being cut off by the world's bankers. Hongrown Total external debt its (Millions of dollars)
Debt service as per cent of exports External debt as per cent Con- of Gross Product Interest as per cent of exports External debt per capita Table 1 How Central America's Debt has 1980 1981 8,501 10,111 20.6 29.1 39.0 52.2 10.4 16.5 Source: Panorama de centroamerica y del caribe til and unless the governments involved are prepared to take this understanding to the point of risking a rupture in their relations with the USA, there can be no genuine guarantee of peace. Reagan meanwhile is stepping up his prepara tions for war against Nicaragua 1982 1983 1984 11,281 13,541 15,379 30.9 41.1 43.4 57.8 62.8 95.9 17.6 26.7 28.0