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This 4 page paper overviews the general policies towards Central America of the Carter Administration and the Reagan Administration. Carter's policies were focused on human rights issues and aid was dependent on reforms in this area of concern. Reagan believed that El Salvador was the barrier to stop the spread of communism in that region of the world. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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The Carter administration criticized human rights violations in El Salvador and subsequently cut off military aid (CARECEN, nd). The people of El Salvador took hope in these actions that
they would become a democracy (CARECEN, nd). The rise of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas in 1979 dashed these hopes and it also caused the administration to rethink its policy and actions
towards Central America (CARECEN, nd). Conservatives in the United States aggressively attacked Carter and accused him of "losing" Nicaragua (CARECEN, nd). The vocal outrage led the Carter administration to change
their emphasis from trying to bring democracy to the area to supporting and maintaining the strength of the Salvadoran army as they fought against the insurgents (CARECEN, nd). Carter identified
human rights as being the foundation for foreign policy, particularly in Lain America (1Up Info, 1988). The Carter Administration became frustrated with the junta governments who could not contain the
violence in their countries (1Up Info, 1988). The policy towards that region was one that was flexible, which allowed Carter to increase or decrease aid but as long as the
Carter administration believed that a state government was making a true effort, a good faith effort, at reform, Carter continued support (1Up Info, 1988). The straw that broke the camels
back in terms of Carters flexibility was the murder of four churchwomen in El Salvador in December 1980 (1Up Info, 1988). Carter stopped all aid to El Salvador at that
time (1Up Info, 1988; CARECEN, nd). Then, on January 4, 1981, two American advisors from the American Institute for Free Labor Development were shot in the Sheraton Hotel in San
Salvador (1Up Info, 1988). The two incidents alarmed both the White House and the U.S. Congress, thereby adding fuel to the effort to disburse aid that would bring improvements in
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