Volume 34, Number 15 · October 8, 1987
The End of the Affair?
By James Chace
I returned to Central America on the weekend that the five Central American presidents surprised the world—and themselves—by signing the Arias peace plan. The agreement reached in Guatemala on August 7, 1987, could be the beginning of the end of America's affair with the contras—the fifteen thousand or so armed rebels based in Honduras—and thus of the effort to replace the Sandinistas with a regime much more to Washington's liking. If the Guatemala accords can be put into effect, America's declared foreign policy of fostering stability and democracy in Central America might at last get underway.
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