A slow-motion U.S. national security disaster has unfolded in Latin America over the past twenty years. This is a painful statement for me to make, because I was personally involved in the turnaround in U.S.-Latin American relations between 1980 and 1990.
Before 1980, almost two-thirds of Latin America’s population lived under military or Marxist dictatorships. There were active insurgencies backed by Cuba and the USSR from north of the Panama Canal to the spires of the Andes. I became politically active in Latin America beginning in 1982, working for the Reagan Administration and later as a political consultant and for the State Department and NGOs. I visited war refugee camps in Honduras and El Salvador, toured front-line military bases, met with a disaffected
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