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...fact that no modernization, no technology and no industry has ever arrived in Nicaragua is now a great advantage for the country," says Cirilo Otero, head of the Center for Research on Environmental Policy. With rich volcanic soils, some 443,000 hectares of fallow farm land waiting to be put back to work, and a long agricultural tradition of growing basic food products, Nicaragua "has the best conditions in Central America" to become a regional breadbasket, Otero says...
...Sandinista revolution in the 1980s diversified the quotas of power in the country," said sociologist Cirilo Otero. "There was a displacement of the oligarchy; a lot of investment left the country, and what is left is the remnants of a class whose influence and power are almost...
...jungle seeking medical treatment for injured fighters. They stormed the Torres hospital and holed up inside. The police and army mounted a day-long siege, exchanging fire with Abu Sayyaf fighters stationed behind hospital windows and in the bell tower of neighboring St. Peter's Church, where Father Cirilo Nacorda, who himself had been an Abu Sayyaf hostage for two months in 1994 (and who now keeps two guns in his office), hid from the battle. By late afternoon, both sides were running low on ammunition. Then the soldiers guarding the back of the hospital inexplicably retreated and the rebels...
...Cirilo is with a group of some 30 heavily armed fighters camped on a coffee plantation just seven miles from Santa Ana's provincial capital, the site of a major army base. In recent months E.R.P. regulars and dozens of new peasant militias have attacked military outposts, ambushed patrols, and even briefly taken a town near the Guatemalan border...
...guerrillas sound determined to fight unless a newly elected government proves unexpectedly willing to reopen negotiations. Warns Cirilo: "We have a genuine desire for peace. But that should not be mistaken for weakness." Schafik Jorge Handal, head of the Salvadoran Communist Party and one of the F.M.L.N.'s top five comandantes, agrees. "If the military says no to our plan, then that indicates their intention of defeating us militarily," he says. "That would oblige us to respond, and the product would be a deepening of the war." Roberto, a veteran E.R.P. combatant is more direct: "If the elections are held...