Word: sandinista
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: Ronald Reagan sold his Latin America policy by casting himself as Paul Revere to an imminent Sandinista invasion, but Bill Clinton faces a tougher challenge in the sedate climate of post-Cold War trade politics...
...Jose Mercury News has charged that the CIA possibly cooperated with the Nicaraguan contras to flood America's black ghettos with cocaine to get money to fund the 1980s war against the Sandinista government [DIVIDING LINE, Sept. 30]. These accusations are more than a problem affecting just black America and the CIA. Senator John Kerry's committee reported in the 1980s that the CIA, the FBI and the DEA knew of the contras' drug dealings, yet drug traffickers continued to be paid by the U.S. State Department, "in some cases after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law-enforcement...
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...
...Meneses, two men with close ties to a CIA-sponsored Nicaraguan contra group known as the FDN, sold tons of coke to a notorious Los Angeles-based dealer named Freeway Rick Ross. Millions of dollars, according to Webb, were then sent back to the secret war against the leftist Sandinista regime. Webb provides a plethora of court documents, recorded interviews and photographs, all of which have been posted on the Mercury's site on the World Wide Web www.sjmercury.com/drugs/)...