Word: barricada
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...family split into feuding factions. One of her sons, Pedro Joaquin Jr., 37, was until recently a leader of the Nicaraguan resistance, which directs the military insurgency of the contra rebels. Her other son, Carlos Fernando, 33, is editor in chief of the Sandinista daily Barricada, and has run editorials calling his brother a traitor. Daughter Cristiana, 35, is a director of La Prensa. Her sister Claudia, 36, was the Sandinista Ambassador to Costa Rica until last year. The private pain of the Chamorro family is a microcosm of Nicaragua's national agony. And Dona Violeta is the prism through...
...target within the city limits. Muffed though it was, the attack delivered a warning that complemented the stepped-up rebel activity in the Nicaraguan countryside: the contras' urban offensive seemed to have begun. Sandinista officials promptly blamed the Reagan Administration. Trumpeted a banner headline in the daily party organ, Barricada: IT COULD HAVE BEEN A MASSACRE. In Washington, officials had quite a different reaction to the bungled strike. "They went all that way, got the charge wired in, then they screwed it up," moaned an Administration official. "These guys are like the gang that couldn't shoot straight...
...civilian collaboration better than the Sandinistas, themselves former guerrillas. The resettlement program, under way since January, has been speeded up in recent weeks as the government attempts to systematically deprive the contras of a popular base that provides food, refuge and, occasionally, recruits. Described in the official Sandinista newspaper Barricada as "the rescue of thousands of peasants from the isolation that allowed the counterrevolution to utilize them," the evacuation could bring about an escalation of the war. Once the farmers are safely out of the way, the Nicaraguan military will have created a free-fire zone in which...
...challenge Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra for the presidency, he might be able to pressure the Sandinistas into making concessions, such as a general amnesty and opening talks with U.S.-backed anti-Communist contra guerrillas. But that tactic only drew scorn from the Managua regime. The Sandinista newspaper, Barricada, charged that Cruz had presented his candidacy "like an intermediary of the mercenaries, financed by President Reagan and the CIA." Said Sandinista Directorate Member Bayardo Arce: "Why should we talk to the clowns when we can talk to the circus owners...
...nation's preparations for war. Since the beginning of the month, Managua has echoed with the sound of rifle fire as civilians crawled on their stomachs and practiced elementary combat maneuvers under the eye of military instructors. Last week large headlines in the government-controlled newspaper Barricada and the pro-government daily Nuevo Diario shouted EVERYONE TO THE DEFENSE and BOMBS CAN FALL ON EVERYONE. Radio stations regularly announced that militia units on the Honduran border were standing by for an air-and-land invasion expected at any moment...