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Socialist Organiser1982 1982-10-21Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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Brisbane demonstrators condemned Fraser's racism BOLIVIA'S new civilian government has received offers of economic aid from the US, the EEC, the USSR, and Venezuela. Even Argentina, which played an important role in the 1980 military coup in Bolivia, and which has become the refuge for the top army commanders sacked by" incoming president Siles, wants to discuss possible aid.
But the government still faces a huge foreign debt crisis -and the international bankers' price for relieving that crisis will be that Siles use his credit with Bolivia's workers and peasants to impose austerity measures.
The US State Department is reported to reckon Will he convince them? the Siles government's probable lifespan at six months. Venezuela for peace tall in Central America hi received a favourabl response from Nicarg and from the Sociali The presidents sent letter - contents not y disclosed - at the end : September to US Pres dent Reagan, to the Sand nista government Nicaragua, and to tl Honduran regime. Mexic in alliance with Europer governments and Socialist International, hi in recent years come out competition with the US : the champion of an & ternative policy for capita ist stability in Centr Meanwhile in El Salv. dor president Magana hi proposed the setting-i of a multi-party commissic to discuss opening negoti tions with the FMLN-FD opposition (as favoured l Mexico and France Magana has seeming made tentative conta with FDR leader Guillern Ungo by the intermedia the Costa Rica governmer • US officials are claimir the Ungo - who represen the openly bourgeois col ponent of the FDR -willing to distance himse from the FMLN guerilli and drop the demand f "a purge and restructuri of El Salvador's arme forces.