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There is solid evidence that Nicaragua is actively supporting insurgencies in neighboring countries. The country maintains warehouses of arms that are available to every Communist insurgency in the region except Peru's Maoist Sendero Luminoso, according to Alvaro Baldizon, a former key official in the Sandinista regime who fled to Honduras last year. To minimize their involvement, says Baldizon, the Sandinistas require neighboring guerrillas to ferry their own arms shipments. Visiting guerrillas are trained at bases in Nicaragua, he further claims, and are even provided with free plane flights on Cubana Airlines to Havana for more specialized instruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Tug of War | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

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