Word: coordinadora
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...reversed when Nicaraguan Interior Minister Tomas Borge Martinez and Planning Minister Henry Ruiz Hernandez returned from Eastern Europe two weeks ago. The moderates agreed not to delay the vote in return for the acceptance of the proposed Contadora pact. Their capitulation has angered the opposition, known as the Coordinadora, a coalition of political parties, businessmen and labor unions that has chosen Cruz to head its ticket. Cruz has refused to sign up officially for the race because of the date of the election...
...saying in the discussions with Shlaudeman, they served notice last week that the issue of internal democracy may be beyond such negotiation. The Managua regime announced that it would uphold a ban on political privileges for a coalition of opposition parties, labor unions and business groups known as the coordinadora. The coalition, led by Arturo Cruz Sequeira, a onetime junta member, had refused to register for the Nov. 4 elections, charging that Sandinista restrictions on political freedom made a truly democratic race impossible. Said Democratic Representative John Bryant of Texas, an opponent of Reagan Administration policies who was in Nicaragua...
First the widely respected Cruz was named presidential candidate of the Coordinadora, an anti-Sandinista umbrella group composed of three political parties, a business organization and two independent trade unions. Then, five days later, he announced that he would not participate in the elections. "I cannot run for President if there are not sufficient guarantees for free and open elections," Cruz explained. "We are not playing a trick on the Sandinistas. But we do not want a trick to be played on the Nicaraguan people...