JPRS ID: 10334 LATIN AMERICA REPORT

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JPRS L/ 10334
18 February 1982
Latin America Re ort
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CFOUO 2/82)
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JPRS L/10334
18 February 1982
LATIN AMERICA REPORT
(FOUO 2/82)
CONTENTS
COUNTRY SECTION
_ INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS
Briefs
SELA, ECOWAS To Promote Cocperation 1
- COSTA RICA
Bri ef s
Banana Company's Parami~itary Group Dismantled 2
CUBA
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Foreign Ministry Issues Statement on Drugs
(PREI,A, 28 Jan 82) 3
- �riefs
Nonaligned Coordination Meeting 5
_ EL SALVADOR
Briefs
'PRELA' Reports Radio Operation 6
PANAMA
Br:i r. i':~ ~
'Poli~~e Cor,trol' of Canal 7
PERU
DISIP I}irector Blames Cuba for Plane Hijacking
(PRELA, 21 Jan 82) ...d... 8
- a - [III - L'A - 144 FOUO]
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Corrununists Predict Somber Economic Outlook
(PRr,I,A 24 Jan 821 l0
Brief s
Newspaper Directo.r Arrested 12
SURINAME
Bouterse Promises End of Imperialist Subjugation
(Daxio Ibanez Fajardo; PRELA, 3 Jan 82) 13
VENEZUELA
~ Brief s
Visiting Indian Official Prom~tes Cooperation 14
VENPRES Director's Resi~nation 1~
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COUNTRY SECTION INTER-r~MERICAN AFFAIRS
BRIEFS
SELA, ECOWAS TO PROMOTL COOPERATION--Caracas, 22 Jan (VENPRES)--SFLA and the
Economic Community of [dest African States (ECOWAS) have signed a joint communique
in Caracas to promote relations and trade between the member countries of the two
organizations. An ECO~dAS mission led by its executive secretary, Aboubakar Diaby
Ouattara, has met with SELA Perman~nt Secretary Carlos Alzamora and several SELA
officials at their headquarters. During the meeting, they exchanged viewpoints cn
their experiences with economic integration and cooperation processes in West
Africa and Latin America. They also discussed the work programs of the two organi-
zations and the selection of the fields of cooperation betwee~:i the two regions
within the framework of the South-South cooperation agreed upon in the meeting of
the group of the 77 in Caracas in mid-1981. ECOWAS is made up of 16 countries:
Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Niger, Lih~ria, Upper Volta,
Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Togo, Benin, Cape Verde and Sierra Leone.
They have a combined population of 150 million people, while SELA has 26 member
countries with a combined population of 350 million. The presidents and foreign
ministers of the ECOWAS mPmbers meet once a year. This meating is directed by a
council of ministers from the ECOWAS member countries which guides the work of the
Executive Secretariat and the $5G-million regional cooperation fund. [Text]
[PA242239 Havana PRELA in Spanish 1735 GMT 22 Jan 82]
CSO: 3010/707
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COUNTRY SECTION COSTA RICA
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BRIEFS
BANANA COMPANY'S PARAMILITARY GROUP DISMANTLED--San Jose, 18 Jan (PL)--The WEEKLY
LIBERTAD has reported that a paramilitary group maintained by t~.e Banana Develop-
ment Company (BANDECO) on one of its plantations in the country's Atlantic Coast
has been dismantled. The BANDECO workers who were oa strike got the government to
order the withdrawal of the 15 military men hired by the foreign consortium. Those
individuals had been sent to the E1 Carmen plantation in Siquirres on the Atlantic
Coast. The military men, who had been discharged by the security ministry, were
harassing the workers and the peasants living near the property of the foreign
monopoiy. The WEEY.L~ LIBERTAD is the news organ of the popular Vanguard Party.
[Text] [PA181428 Havana PRELA in Spanish 1326 GMT ?8 Jan 82]
;,50: 3010/643
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COUNTRY SECTION CUBA
FOREIGN MINISTRY ISSUES STATEMENT ON DRUGS
PA281756 Havana PRELA in Spanish 1617 GMT 28 Jan 81
(7'ext] Ilavana, 28 .T.n (PL)--The Cuban Foreign Relations Ministry has rejected
the U.S. effort to ~~r~~ it Cuba as an accomplice in the international drug
_ traffic.
In a statement issues last night, the Poreign Relations Ministry declares that
Cuba has never given or sent arms to th e Colombian guerrillas.
Here is a text of the Cuban Foreign Relations Ministry statement:
The U.S. State Department has just issued an official statement trying to link
Cuba with drug-traffickers to facilitate, allegedly, arms supplies to Latin
American guerrillas.
The State Department stat'es: "Cuba facilitates the work of networks of
traffickers by allowing mother ships transporti.ng marihuana to seek refuge
in Cuban waters while waiting for the arrival of transport boats from the
Bahamas and Florida." This is a lie that represents true infamy.
If there is drug-tr