Word: chamorros
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...world breathed a sigh of relief when Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and President-Elect Violeta Chamorro embraced last Monday. Nicaragua's freest and fairest election ever seemed to go off smoothly, indicating that world leaders may soon be free of any entanglement with the country's civil war. President Bush even congratulated Ortega last week on "the conduct of the election and on his pledge to stand by the results...
Perhaps this is an idea whose time has come. The intellectual attic is stuffed now. Urgent, exotic pieces of lumber (like Nagorno-Karabakh and Baku and Soweto and Tadzhikistan and Violeta Chamorro and Yegor Ligachev and Tadeusz Mazowiecki and Sisulu and Umberto Eco, on and on) are gathering in the mind from all over the world. They are tumbling out the windows...
Members of the Committee on Central America (COCA) said yesterday that the election of Violetta Barrios de Chamorro as president of Nicaragua was a victory for "American imperialism" and called on the Bush administration to end aid to the contras...
United States intervention helped Chamorro to defeat President Daniel Ortega in the Nicaragua's first elections on February 26, said members of COCA, which has actively supported the Sandinistas and protested U.S. policy in Central America...
COCA members said that they wanted the U.S. to discontinue aid to the contras and the trade embargo, and to let go of its foothold in UNO, the coalition of 14 parties that helped spring Chamorro to victory...