Word: nicaragua
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...fancy hotels, parks and wealthy enclaves lining the waterfront, Miami comprises largely the kind of inner-city neighborhoods that never make it into the tourist brochures. Middle-class flight--first of whites and now of Cubans--has made Miami increasingly a city of struggling, often illegal immigrants from Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador. The downtown business district, which pays about 30% of Miami's taxes, is losing patience. "Taxes in Miami are twice what they are in the county, police and sanitation services are poor, and increasingly businesses don't see it as worth it," says Gene Stearns, a Miami...
MANAGUA: With thirty six percent of the vote counted, Conservative Arnoldo Aleman, the former mayor of Managua, is claiming victory in Nicaragua's second consecutive democratic election. Aleman predicted he would win a majority, avoid a runoff and end Sandinista Daniel Ortega's political comeback. Aleman is already making plans to form a national government, formed of all political forces in the country. Ortega is not conceding defeat, while Sandinista campaign chairman Alvaro Fiallos said that it was premature for Aleman to claim victory. The elections themselves were a morass of inefficient bureaucracy, hampered by delays in ballot delivery, tardy...
DANIEL ORTEGA Nicaragua The Sandinista who seized power in 1979 and left office after losing an election in 1990 has traded fiery rhetoric for slick ads. He is now even-odds to win the Oct. 20 presidential election...
...have presided over an economy that is performing better than that of almost any other industrial state. In 1991, Weld's first year, Massachusetts' unemployment rate was one of the highest in the nation. Last week the state hit a seven-year low. "John's forte has been Nicaragua and the Caribbean, which doesn't exactly dominate the conversation at the coffee shops," says Weld...
...described as an example of Cold War tensions. The U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965 is frequently discussed in the same manner. A teaching fellow for a class about economic development told me that he graded harshly a paper that I wrote about U.S. economic warfare against Nicaragua because I had not included a moral justification for such action. When I asked how this sabotage could be morally justified, this buffoon actually told me that because the U.S. had defeated Hitler and Stalin, America had paramount moral stature...