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...plummeting currency. Whether the country has been let down by the revolution or, as some would argue, the revolution has been let down by the country, Nicaragua today seems to be a betrayal of all the earnest vows swapped in the sticky July heat of 1979 when Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle was finally toppled...
Chamorro has long since taken her measure of the Sandinistas. For eight months after the 1979 overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, she sat on the ruling junta with Ortega before resigning in anger over the new government's leftward march. Still, Chamorro has not lost her sense of humor. When Ortega visited her house, he asked why pictures of her husband with leaders of the revolution had disappeared. "I told him that, frankly, looking at you ((Sandinistas)) gave me a headache," she said. If all goes according to plan, the first edition of the reborn La Prensa will appear...
...Honduran jitters that an end to hostilities in Nicaragua might send a tidal wave of contra refugees crashing across the border. Costa Rican officials believe that in the event of peace, the peasant soldiers in their country would return to Nicaragua, with only the former National Guardsmen of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle and upper-class Nicaraguans choosing to remain abroad. Honduran officials are less sanguine. As it is, they must cope with some 150,000 Nicaraguan refugees. They fear that most of the roughly 12,000 contras would want to set up shop in Honduras, perhaps even refusing...
...states that "if we had done something about Somaza's corrupt dictatorship in 1974 or 1977, we would not be where we are in 1987." He apparently does not recall that Luis Somoza Debayle began his corrupt and murderous regime with U.S. backing in 1956, and that his father, Anastasio Somoza (who ordered the assassination of Auigusto Cesar Sandino), was handed the dictatorship of Nicaragua by the U.S. Marines in 1937. In fact, if Mr. Graham laments the situation we find ourselves presently, perhaps he should explore the earliest episode of U.S. intervention in Nicaragua--the 1855 invasion...
...guerrilla named Huaspaca recalled fighting last February in the Matagalpa region to the south: "It was rough, and the Sandinistas invaded our positions. They use less men than before, but they employ a lot more artillery." Added a contra known as Chicle, who was a sergeant in former President Anastasio Somoza's National Guard: "The Sandinistas use everything at their disposal. When they are in trouble, they call in air support or artillery. Under those circumstances we have to curtail our operations. They are capable in war, but remember they are being advised by the Cubans and Soviets...