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...first glimmer of hope came two weeks ago, when the State Department proposed a plan designed to serve as a basis of discussion between the U.S. and Nicaragua. It was a welcome departure from previous policy towards the Central American country. Since the Marxist-oriented Sandinist government replaced Anastasio Somoza's strong-arm dictatorship, Reagan has viewed Nicaragua as the exemplary victim of a new domino theory. Because the Sandinistas proposed Marxist reforms, the Administration reasoned, they were automatically part of the mysterious and sinister Soviet-Cuban network of international terrorism and revolution. The moment a Marxist government gained control...
...plain awful. Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, as the CIA'S attention shifted to Southeast Asia and Washington relied more on space-age technology than undercover agents, intelligence operations in Central America deteriorated. In 1973 U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua Turner Shelton consistently underplayed the opposition to President Anastasio Somoza in his reports home, thus blinding Washington to the signs of rising turmoil. Complains one U.S. specialist on Central American affairs: "Too often [our] ambassadors in the region felt it was their job to play poker with dictators...
...Prensa. Christian concludes: In Nicaragua the American media went on a "guilt trip." The story that reporters told- with a mixture of delight and guilt- was the ending of an era in which the U.S. had once again been proved wrong. . . "Intrigued by the decline and fall of Anastasio Somoza, they could not see the coming of Tomás Borge...
Haig was misled. The picture in Le Figaro was actually taken more than three years ago, during the Sandinistas' successful rebellion against Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, and showed bodies being burned by the Red Cross as a sanitation measure after an attack by Somoza's National Guard. Le Figaro admitted that its picture had been incorrectly captioned. The State Department insisted, however, that U.S. charges of Sandinista repression were correct. The Nicaraguans denied the claim, but TIME has independently verified that killings and forced reset dements have occurred...
...revolution in Nicaragua was settled by negotiations in 1979 in which the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas, who had driven Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle into exile, agreed to share power with the moderates. But from the beginning the pluralism failed. The government and, crucially, the army were dominated by the Sandinistas. Moderates were forced out of office, or quit in frustration. Says a ranking military analyst: "Only the Sandinistas came out on top. If I had the least hope that a negotiated settlement would produce a tolerable government [in El Salvador], I'd want to help them...