Word: baltodano
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That stung the Sandinista leadership. It was a prescient observation. One of the government's first steps was to move in on a new church-sponsored group called the Justice and Peace Commission, whose aim was to defend human rights. Marta Patricia Baltodano, a lawyer and longtime human rights activist who helped organize the commission, asserts that she learned of a Sandinista plan to discredit her by forcing an accuser to claim falsely that she had engaged in sexual relations with a priest. Baltodano fled to exile in Costa Rica last December. "We realized we were not going...
...becoming more difficult to say what that role should be. Some Catholics urge the Cardinal to try harder to heal the Nicaraguan church's internal rift, which in turn might lessen tensions with the government. Others advise him to speak out against repression even more forcefully. Says Activist Exile Baltodano: "The government of Nicaragua is still sensitive to international pressure." Considering the irreconcilable forces at play, continued confrontation between Obando and the Sandinistas seems virtually inevitable...
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