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VIOLETA BARRIOS DE CHAMORRO may be President of Nicaragua, but Daniel Ortega's defeated Marxist party still controls the Sandinista Popular Army. Now a group of prominent Nicaraguans calling themselves the "Civilist Movement" are working quietly to remove this Sword of Damocles by abolishing the army altogether. Its peace-keeping functions would be turned over to the national police force, which is less political. The Civilist Movement wants to offer citizens a referendum on the issue, which war-weary citizens would be likely to approve in an honest election. After all, neighboring Costa Rica has got by without an army...
Fiers believes that we should ignore the Iran-Contra scandal because "the Nicaraguan policy, including the support to the contras, was fully successful." But Violeta Chamorro's eventual democratic election to the presidency of Nicaragua does not justify illegal support for guerrilla revolutionaries...
...decade-long civil war between the U.S.-backed contra rebels and the Sandinistas is supposed to be over. It has been 18 months since a coalition led by President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro ousted the Sandinista National Liberation Front in free elections, and 14 months since about 27,500 contras voluntarily surrendered their weapons. But harassment by the army and police, which remain under Sandinista control, has driven about 1,000 so-called recontras to rearm, threatening a recrudescence...
There have been 52 killings of demobilized rebels since July 1990. In retaliation, the recontras have attacked cooperative farms established by the Sandinistas. The former rebels are also angry about Chamorro's coddling of the Sandinistas, who refuse to return the houses and land they expropriated and then divided among themselves before they left office...
This month, Chamorro vetoed legislation intended to roll back the giveaway, prompting her own coalition to accuse her of betraying voters. The U.S. has volunteered to pay to recover weapons from Sandinista and ex-contra civilians, a policy Managua does not favor because it fears former Sandinistas will pocket the cash and get other guns, possibly from the army...