LATIN AMERICA BRIEF OCPAS LAB 90/139 FOR 15 JUNE 1990.

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06548493
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: January 9, 2017
• Case Number: F-2016-01366
• Publication Date: June 15, 1990

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SUBJECT: LATIN AMERICA BRIEF OCPAS LAB 90/139 FOR 15 JUNE 1990.
CONTENTS
1. SURINAME: BOUTERSE TESTS CIVILIAN RESOLVE
2. INBRIEFS
1. SURINAME: BOUTERSE TESTS CIVILIAN RESOLVE
MILITARY COMMANDER BOUTERSE IS INCREASING THE PRESSURE ON
RONNIE BRUNSWIJK'S RURAL BLACK REBELS, PROBABLY MORE TO DISCOURAGE
ANTIMILITARY INITIATIVES BY THE CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT THAN TO QUASH
THE INSURGENCY. WITHOUT GOVERNMENT AUTHORIZATION, THE ARMY HAS
REINFORCED SEVERAL POINTS OUTSIDE REBEL-OCCUPIED MOENGO AND HAS
CLOSED THE ROAD LEADING THERE FROM PARAMARIBO. THE MOVE HAS FORCED
THE US-OWNED SURINAME ALUMINUM COMPANY (SURALCO) TO REDUCE
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PRODUCTION SHARPLY; SHARPLY; IT HAS THREATENED TO STOP PAYMENTS TO
PARAMARIBO. GOVERNMENT LEADERS, UNABLE TO PERSUADE BOUTERSE TO PULL
BACK, PLAN TO "ORDER" THE REBELS TO WITHDRAW.
COMMENT: BOUTERSE REALIZES HE CANNOT TAKE THE TOWN EASILY AND
HAS POSITIONED HIS TROOPS SO AS TO LET BRUNSWIJK WITHDRAW WITHOUT A
FIGHT. BOUTERSE PROBABLY IS DEFYING GOVERNMENT ORDERS TO SHOW HE IS
DISPLEASED WITH LEGISLATION LIMITING THE ARMY'S ARREST POWER AND
WITH A PENDING BILL THAT WOULD END MILITARY CONTROL OF THE LUCRATIVE
IMMIGRATION AND PORT AUTHORITIES. BRUNSWIJK MAY USE THE GOVERNMENT'S
REQUEST AS AN EXCUSE TO BACK AWAY FROM A TACTICALLY UNTENABLE
POSITION. ABOUT 95 PERCENT OF SURINAME'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE COMES FROM
SURALCO PAYMENTS AND A CUTOFF WOULD BANKRUPT THE GOVERNMENT. LABOR
LEADERS PROBABLY WOULD THEN FOLLOW THROUGH ON THREATS TO CALL A
GENERAL STRIKE
2. IN BRIEFS
AMERICAS
X--1-IAVANA HAS INDEFINITELY POSTPONED PAPAL VISIT SCHEDULED FOR
NEXT YEAR, . FEARS POPE MIGHT BE
RALLYING POINT FOR DISAFFECTED CUBANS. . . HAS CHARGED LOCAL CLERGY
INFLUENCED BY US.
X--NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT SIGNED DEMOBILIZATION AGREEMENT WITH
SOUTHERN FRONT INSURGENTS WEDNESDAY. . . SOME 1,000 TO DISARM BY 25
JULY.. . PEACE AGREEMENTS NOW REACHED WITH ALL THREE REBEL GROUPS.
X PERU TRYING TO SELL SOVIET MI-6
TRANSPORT HELICOPTERS, OTHER OBSOLETE TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT . . .
UNABLE TO GET SPARE PARTS FROM SOVIETS . .. MOSCOW UNWILLING TO
TRADE FOR NEW MI-17 HELICOPTERS.
ADMIN
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