Word: sandinistas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press conference to display a cache of weapons, including 24 surface- to-air missiles, found in the wreckage of a twin-engine Cessna that had crashed some 70 miles east of San Salvador. The plane almost certainly took off from Nicaragua, bolstering Cristiani's conviction that Ortega's Sandinista government was supplying arms to the F.M.L.N. despite a personal promise to Cristiani last August not to do so. Cristiani suspended diplomatic relations with Nicaragua and refused to attend a summit of Central American Presidents scheduled for this weekend unless it was moved from Managua...
...Sandinistas have admitted supplying the F.M.L.N. with other types of weapons in the past. But U.S. intelligence agencies have not been able to come up with hard information about the nature of these shipments or how they have changed over time. Some Washington officials believe Managua's military aid to the F.M.L.N. was fairly modest from the early 1980s until mid-1988, when plans were first laid for the current offensive and arms shipments were cranked up. If Ortega is indeed the purveyor of SA-7s to the F.M.L.N., why did he choose to send them now? One plausible hypothesis...
Andrew Bates criticized COCA for what he sees as our blind eye to human rights abuse in Nicaragua. To in any way compare polling policy in Sandinista-led Nicaragua to the genocide enacted by ARENA-led EI Salvador shows unspeakable disrespect for human rights by making all offenses equal. Bates' piece also cheapens the lives of all Central Americans by submitting to the terms of a cold-war discourse (and along the way forgetting that while Soviet aid to Nicaragua began during Carter's presidency, so did U.S. aid to contras...
NEVER have I heard COCA unconditionally denounce the Sandinista government for its human rights abuses or for its reliance on the military assistance of the Cubans and the Soviets, which began, one may recall, during the Carter years--that is, before the U.S. decided to fund the contra rebels. Never have I heard COCA question the legitimacy of a Nicaraguan government that prohibits independent polling of its citizens and has done everything it could to squash the free speech of the opposition, as the editors of La Prensa would attest...
Uruguay's President Julio Maria Sanguinetti, chatting with George Bush, spotted him first. Sanguinetti muttered a low warning to the U.S. President that Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, who had just entered the room at Costa Rica's Hotel Cariari, was headed toward them. Bush squared himself, picking up the Sandinista comandante in his peripheral vision. He was poised for this power game that is played with body language and photo opportunities. Adversarial heads of state strive to gain a psychological edge over one another and to make points with the vast electronic audiences that watch these dramas. In this...