Word: chamorro
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...spending hundreds of millions of dollars, enduring bitter domestic debate and engaging in illegal- arms deals to face down Managua's Soviet-backed rulers. Only the end of the cold war prompted the two superpowers to bow out. Americans thought Nicaragua's problems were solved when Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was elected President in early...
...Sandinista troops took up guns again to grab territory and settle scores. In Managua the leader who pledged national reconciliation could not even reconcile the players within her own government. Last January the 12- party U.N.O. broke with her, along with Vice President Godoy. That has left Chamorro politically dependent on the Sandinistas, who were allowed to retain de facto control of the army and police forces. Now they too are pulling away as the economy worsens. The legislature is in virtual paralysis, with nearly half the Deputies refusing to attend sessions...
...HADN'T BEEN WARNED. PRESIDENT Violeta Chamorro's ballot-box victory over the Marxist-dominated Sandinistas three years ago, celebrated as a triumph of democracy, dimmed somewhat when she retained several former adversaries in key positions while continually quarreling with her own National Opposition Union (U.N.O.) coalition. Now Madam President has added three more Sandinistas to her Cabinet and announced a new economic plan with emphasis on social issues that appeals to the Sandinistas -- plus a 20% devaluation of the cordoba and a freeze on government spending. Fed up, U.N.O. officially broke with Chamorro, and marched through the streets...
Managua called urgently for international assistance, and several countries, including the U.S., responded with money and supplies. President Violetta Chamorro also asked Washington to resume its assistance program, which was abruptly cut off last spring to underline U.S. displeasure over the continuing political influence of leftist Sandinistas...
Salaverry predicted that with Chamorro's leadership, the bloodshed and the hyper-inflation of the '80s will...