Word: uruguay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a week of tiring and often tense negotiations that ran well past midnight last Friday, the ministers resolved their differences and successfully launched the "Uruguay Round" of trade talks. Up until the last minute, delegates were haggling over such sticky agenda topics as agricultural subsidies and restrictions on trade in services. U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter, who staggered back to his hotel room at 5:30 a.m. Saturday and got only two hours of sleep before boarding a plane home, was ecstatic at * the outcome. Said he: "The launching of the Uruguay Round is a major victory...
...Marines, what is the best way for the U.S. to deal with the Sandinistas? It is an awkward fact that the U.S. can find no official support anywhere in Central or South America for sponsoring the contras. Indeed, eight Latin American countries--Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Peru--joined last month to urge the U.S. not to aid the contras, but rather to press for a regional peace treaty...
Moreno said he was speaking for Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela...
...only approach to the Nicaraguan situation. The Contadora group--Mexico, Colombia, Panama, and Venezuela--has recently resurfaced after a period of inactivity to offer a plausible alternative to this brutal approach. Ministers from the four Contadora nations met last month with officials from Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Uruguay to issue a joint statement calling for a negotiated settlement to the Nicaraguan...
Zalaquett, former deputy secretary general of Amnesty International, said the arbitrary detention of citizens is not always defined as illegal in Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, and Argentina...