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After 14 landings by the U.S. Marines over the past century and a quarter, the last occupation covering seven years in the 1920s and 1930s while the marines chased Augusto Cesar Sandino, Nicaraguans have come to feel they should be surprised by nothing the United States undertakes to do to them. When we were unable to catch up to Sandino, the Marines withdrew, installing the Somoza dynasty in their stead. The first Somoza caught up with Sandino almost immediately and had him assassinated...
...Somaza's corrupt dictatorship in 1974 or 1977, we would not be where we are in 1987." He apparently does not recall that Luis Somoza Debayle began his corrupt and murderous regime with U.S. backing in 1956, and that his father, Anastasio Somoza (who ordered the assassination of Auigusto Cesar Sandino), was handed the dictatorship of Nicaragua by the U.S. Marines in 1937. In fact, if Mr. Graham laments the situation we find ourselves presently, perhaps he should explore the earliest episode of U.S. intervention in Nicaragua--the 1855 invasion led by William Walker--to find some answers...
...fields, you're picking fruit that has been sprayed with hazardous chemicals, several of which have been outlawed by both state and federal agencies. With nothing to protect you from the pesticides, you become contaminated. And, since your employer is careful to "protect" you from "troublemakers" like Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, you have nowhere to turn for help...
...Like the tango, the merengue never really left," says Cesar Ascarrunz, owner of San Francisco's Latin Palace. "It's just coming into its own again." Last winter Promoter Jose Tejeda staged a merengue extravaganza at New York's Roseland, and, he says, "the fire department had to come and block the doors because 5,000 people showed up." Merengue's ascendancy has been helped by a slackening of interest in the more energetic variations of salsa, which were tough on untutored feet and sartorially deficient...
Ortega and the Sandinista revolution came of age together. Daniel, the eldest of five children, was born in 1945 in the northern town of La Libertad. His father, a small businessman, was an avid supporter of the guerrilla forces of the legendary Augusto Cesar Sandino, who was killed by the dictatorship's National Guard. Both father and mother were imprisoned under the first Somoza regime, and Daniel was jailed for his activism at the age of 15. His younger brother Camilo was killed in 1978 during the Nicaraguan revolution, and another brother, Humberto, fought side by side with Daniel until...