The U.S. last weekend ordered jet fighters to the Panama Canal Zone, where no jets have been based for the past six years. The move was aimed at stopping a projected invasion of Costa Rica by disgruntled Costa Rican émigrés, mightily helped by Nicaragua's tough strongman, Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza.
Tacho makes no bones about hating Costa Rica's dictator-hating President José ("Pepe") Figueres, whom he blames for a trying experience last April, when Nicaraguan exiles entering from Costa Rica tried to kill him after a party at the U.S. embassy. About every dark of...
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