Word: cruz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 last week on a fact-finding...
...resumed training, but in early April she again had to "walk out of a run." This time Benoit was referred to Orthopedic Surgeon Stan James, in Eugene, Ore., whose roster of patients with knee problems reads like a Who 's Who of running: Jim Ryun, Frank Shorter, Joaquim Cruz and Mary Decker. James first prescribed drug and physical therapy. Six days later, on April 23, a depressed Benoit was back in James' office; that morning the pain in her knee had forced her to pull up three miles into a run. James presented her with two options...
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...
...Cruz had apparently hoped that by returning home to challenge Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra for the presidency, he might be able to pressure the Sandinistas into making concessions, such as a general amnesty and opening talks with U.S.-backed anti-Communist contra guerrillas. But that tactic only drew scorn from the Managua regime. The Sandinista newspaper, Barricada, charged that Cruz had presented his candidacy "like an intermediary of the mercenaries, financed by President Reagan and the CIA." Said Sandinista Directorate Member Bayardo Arce: "Why should we talk to the clowns when we can talk to the circus owners...
...before Cruz withdrew from the presidential race, two of the largest contra factions concluded a unity pact in Panama City, joining their political and military organizations on the northern and southern Nicaraguan fronts under a single directorate. The document, signed by representatives of the Nicaraguan Democratic Front (F.D.N.) and the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE), called for the establishment of a pluralistic democracy in Nicaragua and urged "all lovers of liberty to unite so that tyranny can be eradicated and Soviet expansion in the hemisphere blocked." Contra leaders said they would support Cruz...