Ronald Reagan: “We must help, because the people of the Caribbean and Central America…”

On the recordFebruary 23, 1982

We must help, because the people of the Caribbean and Central America are in a fundamental sense fellow Americans.

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Republican · California

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Remarks on the Caribbean Basin Initiative to the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States

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Ronald Reagan: “We must help, because the people of the Caribbean and Central America are in a fundamental sense fellow Americans.”