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Shortly before fleeing into exile in 1979, Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle erupted in fury over what he regarded as the complicity of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the Sandinista revolution. In particular, said Somoza, Archbishop Miguel Obando y Bravo of Managua should receive the new title of "Comandante Miguel." In fact, six years of increasingly harsh rule by the Marxist-oriented Sandinistas has brought Obando new prominence--and, indeed, notoriety. In 1985 Pope John Paul II elevated him to the College of Cardinals. He has emerged, in the eyes of Nicaragua's rulers, as their toughest critic. Foreign Minister...
...moment, that role is claimed by Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, the popular leader of Nicaragua's Roman Catholic Church. The Sandinistas have tried to muffle Obando and his followers. Church bashing has become a favorite sport of the two official newspapers, and both Radio Catolica and the Catholic printing press have been shut down in recent months. Priests have been hauled in for interrogation and offered the option either to leave the country or to sign up with the army. Last January, after the Cardinal delivered a letter to the United Nations charging the Sandinistas with attempting to "neutralize...
...Says Ralph Thomson, senior vice president of the American Electronics Association, which represents 2,700 manufacturers of everything from microchips to medical instruments: "Among the major barriers that we face in international trade, the strong dollar has been the primary one. When we see that situation changing, we say 'Bravo...
...Bravo--American Movie Classics...
...strictly the decree will be enforced, it had the effect of ratifying the sorts of measures the Sandinistas have been taking in recent months without the cloak of law. Their main target seems to be Nicaragua's Roman Catholic Church, led by the charismatic Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo. Days before Ortega's speech, Sandinista security agents had seized 10,000 copies of Iglesia, a new Catholic newsletter. Then just hours before the speech, government agents closed the magazine's office and seized its printing equipment. Apparently the publication offended the Sandinistas because it carried a letter from Cardinal Obando...