Word: bravos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Nicaragua, suspended the talks in midafternoon, expressing disappointment that his proposal had not been accepted "in principle" by both sides...
...opposition news outlets, the newspaper La Prensa and Radio Catolica, and pardoned 16 jailed rebel sympathizers. Sensing defeat, the U.S. Administration scaled back its request to just $30 million. Still, Ortega pressed on. He agreed to indirect talks with the contras and designated Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo as the mediator. In the end, Congress granted only $14.4 million...
Tinoco said earlier yesterday that the Sandinistas wanted to take advantage of the presence of both Obando y Bravo and the Contra leadership to get the cease-fire talks under...
...talks next week will take place without Obando y Bravo, who said he has to be in Rome on Vatican business. The cardinal, Roman Catholic archbishop of Managua, said he designated top aides to mediate in his absence...
...Obando y Bravo, himself a leading critic of the Sandinista government, was not available to answer reporters' questions after meeting the six Resistance directors...