JPRS ID: 10283 LATIN AMERICA REPORT

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26 January 1982
Latin America Re ort
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CFOUO 1 /82)
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26 January 1982
LATIV AMERICA REPORT
(FOUO 1/82)
CONTENTS
~ C~UNTRY SEC`PION
= INTER-AM~:cr.I~AiV AFFAIP,S
Briefs
- 'PRELA', 'GNA' Si~:~ Agr~ement 1
BAHAMAS
Disarray in Opposition Likelv To Give Pin~ling Victory
~LATIN AMERICAN REGIONAL REPORTS-CARIBBEAN, 1~ Dec 81) 2~
CUBA �
ACC's Bustamante Discusses Cooperation With USSR
(Jose ,.~ngel Bustamante; AMERICA LATINA, Oct 81)
I~,L S/1LVADOR
- Socialist Intc:rna~.ional Sup~~orts FMLN on Elections
(PRF;LA, 25 D~c 81) 7
G UATEP~IALA
ORPA Reports 98 Army Casualties F'rom 30 Sep to 5 Nov
(PRELA, 10 Dec: 81) 8
- GJYA1~lA
I
Dc~clining Economy F'actor in Government Personnel Changas
(LATIN AMERICAN REGIONAL REPORTS-CARIBBEAN, 1~ Dec 81)....... 9
Bri ef's
Human Rights Violations ' 11
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110ND(fRAS `
MPL Says Honduras To Be Staging Area for ~lggression
(PRELA, 9 Jan 82) 12
NICARAGUA
D'Escoto Demands End to U.S. ~Verbal Terrorism'
- (John '~ettie; THE GUARDIAN, 18 Dec 81) 1~
PANAMA
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Br~iei's
Center of Sugarcane Technology 16
ST. VINCLN T
Bri ef s
Island Development I}ispute 17
VENEZUELA
- Bri ei's
Communists Congratulate Cuban Assembl.y Leaders 18
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_ COUNTRY SECTION INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS
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. BRIEFS
'PItELA', 'GNA' SZGN AGREDNENT--Georgetown, 13 Dec (PL)--The Latin ~unerican News
- A,gency I'RENSA LATINA and ttie Guyanese News Agency GNA s3.gned here an agreement
~ on collaboration and exchange of information between both news agencies. The
document was signed by Courtney Gibson, cl-~ief direetor of the GNA and by
Gustavo R~breno, m3naging director of PRENSA LATINA, in a ceremony held
in the premises of. the recently created Guyanese agency. The agreement
stipulates the development and broadening of cooperation between GNA and
- PR~NSA LA'i'INA, both in the bilateral field and within the framework of the
- rionaligned movement news agencies pool. During his stay in Guyana, the
PL managing d~rector met with Ivon Harewood-Benn, minister in ciiarge of the
information sector, and Frank Campbell, chief edi:.or of the daily GUYANA
' CHRONICLE and paid visits to different mass medi`. fText] [PA130425 Havana
PRELA in English 1933 GMT 12 Dec 81]
CSO: 3025/1013
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COUNTRY SECTION BAHAMAS
DISARF,AY IN OPPOSITION LIKELY TO GIVE PINDLING VICTORY
Londun IATIN AMERICAN QE~.;IONAL REPORTS-CARIBBI:AN in English 4 Dec 81 pp 9, 10
_ ~Text~ The Bal-aamas i.s gearing for an election ne:{t year that even the
' government's worst critics admit the -:uling Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) will
have a hard time losing. The problem is the two major opposition parties whose
mutual di~like has so far superseded their join t concern over tlie prospect of
another five years of 'stop and go' government by the PLP,
Politically the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the
Free :Vational i~iovement (FNi1~1) represent a mix of
~ disenchanted PLPers and vestiges of the white
minority United Bahamian Party (UBP) which govern-
ed prior to 1967. Once united under the banner of
the FNNI, the opposition was badly mauled in the
1972 general election and split just six monttis short
of the 1977 election. Many supporters are convinced
that action cost them a substantial number of seats if
not the ~overnment.
- Philosophically the two parties are indistinguishable.
Both aze committed to less rather than more govern-
ment. They blazne the administration's expanding
involvement in the private sector plus a succession of '
had policy decisions for the countty's rising debt and ~
bouts of deep recession since 1970. ~evertheless
sporadic attempts at re+~:~ification have floundered
because neither the leadership of the FNM, con-
trolled mainly by former PLPers, nor that of the SDP,
led by f~rmer UBPers, have heen able to bridge their
old party differences.
The opposition emerged from the 1977 election
with eight of 38 parliamet~tary seats. Since then there
has been one defection to the PLP, while the remain-
der have sub-divided and re-grouped into the present
arrangement. Personal rivalries between and within
the various factions have in the past foar years pro-
voked a stream of recriminations totally divorced
from the m~in issues.
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Recently the balance has shifted to the Ftil+1
following the ~eparture of several leading SDP
members. The SDP was further weakened last month
- when one of its four parliamentary memb~rs
announced he would seek rP-election as an F~`I car:-
didate. The SDP has now said it will contest only five
seats, leaving the field clear for the F~1:~I. The F~1~1
' insists, however, that it intends to run candidates for
the three SDP seats, even at the risk of losing them all
to the PLP.
At a tirae of growing dissatisfaction with the
government's 14-year recorci, such dissPnsion ~vithin ~
the opposition has left many voters in a political
no man's land. ~ddressing the PLP convention in
� October, prime minister Lynden Pindling admitted
that the country is suftering from a general break-
down in discipline for which he was partly resp~nsible.
- He did not realise, he said, that by encoura{~in~;
: Rahamians to better ttiemselves, they would choose
unemployment over manua! labour.
Polire statistics show that major c:rime has dc~uhled
in ten years. In many cases those resp~~nsihle are
neither poor nor unemployed, Pindling said. Bc~th
crime and unemployment are eYpected to worsen as
the deepening LTS recessio?~ makes itself felt on the
Bahamian economy. The tourist industr~, in the
doldrums for the past year, is predicteci to show a
US$50m shortfall for 1981. The government has
reac;ted by increasir.g public spending to E~rovide more
jobs arzd social service benef.its.
although not obliged to cull an election before
mid-1982, the prime minister i.s likely to do so early
in the year bef~re the economic situation ~vorsens.
The ahserue of ~in effective oppesition could mean a
c�lear and overwhelminq victory for thN PLP. It could
- also open the door to the much smaller but more
clisciplined Vanguard Socialist Party.
Hiqhly critical of the PLP, the ten-year-old
Vanguard still has no parliamentary representation
because of a general antipathy by Bahamians to
socialist philosophy. Its main support has come from
young people at the lower end of the economic scale.
- L:~st month it announced that it would field 20
- candidates in the election. Four years ago it put up
, four and won a total of 55 votes. Even if it fails to
win ;u~y seats this time, the degree of support ~iven
~he p,~rty could have 1'ar-reaching implications. ?
~ COPYRIGIIT: LATIN AML'RICA,iV RLGIONAL REPORTS, 1981
CSO: 3025/95
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COUNTRY SECTION CUBA
ACC'S BUSTAMANTE DISCUSSES COOPERATION WITH USSR
Moscow AMERICA LATINA in Spanish Oct 81 pp 89-93
[Excerpt from speech by Jose Angel Bustamante on Soviet-Cuban scientific cooperation
at USSR Academy of Sciences Latin Amerlca Institute on 25 December 1980]
[TextJ On 27 April 1981 a solemn session of the Scientif ic
Council and of the collective of the Latin America Institute
(TAL) of rhe USSR Acad~my of Sciences was held to award the
- degree of doctor honoris causa of the IAL to the well-kiiown
Cuban scientific and public figure, JoGe Angel Bustamante
0'Leary. At this session Profess:~r V. Vol'skiy, director of the
IAL, pointed ~ut the great signif icance and deep symoolism of
this event, since the homage to the Cuban scientist was ac-
corded on an importanr. date for the institute, which celebrated
its 20th anniversaLy the same day. The institute was created
- under the direct inspiration of the Cuban Revo?ution, in which
one of the active participants was the present vice president
of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, J.A. Bustamante.
Recently, J.A. Bustamante was 70 years old. In recognition of
_ his services to scienca and for his gr~at contribution to the
- development of Soviet-Cuban scientific exchanges, the Sci.enti-
ric Council of the IAL decided on 25 Decp.mber 1980 to confer on
him the title of doctor honoris causa of the institute.
_ In the name of all Soviet scientists and in particular of those
wilo work in the institutE, the chief of the Cuban Sect~on of
the IAL, Anatoliy Bekarevich, cordially congratulated J.A.
Bustamante on this occasion.
The charge d'affaires of the Republic of Cuba in the USSR,
Jul.io A. Puerta Quiroga, emphasized rhat the life of J.A.
Bustamante is a brilliant example of devoted, revolutionary
service to the peoFle.
- We publish below an extract of the address given by Dr J.A.
Bustamante.
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It is a source of great satisfaction for me to receive today the degree of doctor
honoris causa in sciences, since it is an honor whose value we can recognize.
Perhaps this award is justified in part by my deep interest i:. the history of inedi-
~ine and science in general, which has led me to concentrate on its study in a way
parallel to my real, professional inrerest: psychiatry.
However, without a doubt the affection of my Soviet colleagues and above a11 their
consideration for my fatherland, Cuba, has influenced it in a more def inite way.
Cuba is the Island of Liberty, and in its name I think I am in a position to receive
the award, as vice president for social sciences in our Academy of Sciences.
In the course of this activity it was possible for us to conf irm in practice the
fraternal and internationalist character of the relations between the USSR and our
fatherland.
If we find in this way a partial explanation for the honor, when we add the rela-
tions which our activity has involved with the social sciences branch, we are led
to the conclusion that it is in the name of our own academy and of Cuba that we
decided to accept such an honor.
Flowever, returning to our relationships, in rhA framework of which the granting
of the degree is taking place, the following circumstances surround it--the great,
internationalist attitude of our Soviet brothers, since, as Fidel once said very
well: without the October Revolution the Cuban Revolution would not have beeii pos-
- sible. Therefore, the Cuban Academy of Sciences could not have received the sup-
port of ehe USSR Academy of Sciences, so useful to the full achievement of its
aspirations.
Fiowever, we want to emphasize that in response to the help so oFfered we must add
that Cuba, for its part, lrnew enough to choose the proper path to leave its state
of dependence and underdevelopment.
Tn the framework of scientific cooperation the role of the USSR Ac~demy of Sciences
- and its help for the scientific development of Cuba, through the Cuban Academy of
Sciences, is a manifest fact which we all recognize. The agreements reached between
the two academies of sciences have promoted a close relationsh~p between the m'�ber
institutes of the two academies.
The Latin Elmerica Institute has played an important role in the development of these
relationships, as much with the Latin American countries as with Cuba in a special
way. We would like t~ take this opportunity to point out that the ?.Oth anniversary
of t}ie foundation of this institute is being celebrated this month. The IAL has
maintained praiseworthy relationships with our institutes of the Social Sciences
Section of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, offering great help in obtaining degrees
C~r ci number of workers and scientists of the academy, maintaining an exchange of
5cientific cadres and especially in the development of research on the Isle of Youth
in wl~ich tt~e Latin American Institute, other institutes of the USSR Academy of
_ Sciences, and other Soviet organizations have partLcipated. This research wi~l
naake it possible to provide appropriate recommeiidations for the development of the
Isle of Youth, but