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  • Nearly half of all terrorist incidents worldwide that involved US citizens or property occurred in Latin America. US interests were favorite targets in Colombia, Peru, and Chile, where American banks and US-affiliated petroleum companies were the primary targets.
  • In Peru and Colombia, moreover, attacks against US businesses nearly doubled.
  • Anti-US violence in the Andean region has increased consistently over the past five years. In 1982, for example, there were only 12 anti-American attacks, compared with about 80 incidents in 1986,

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We believe that Andean terrorists are increasingly selecting US targets in an effort to attract international media attention to their local causes.

Some terrorist groups, however, genuinely want to compel the withdrawal of US official and commercial interests.

This stems in part from anti-American sentiment that goes back at least a century in South America and perceives the United States as a heavyhanded external influence in the region.

The terrorists also hope that their anti-American attacks will win them favor-and ultimately acristance-from such state sponsors of terrorism as Cuba and Libya.

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Governments in the region find themselves confronting growing threats with illprepared security forces. Some of the democratic governments in the Andean

Figure 2
Anti-US Attacks, by Country,
1985-86

Colombia

Peru

Chile


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