Word: cubana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official in the Sandinista regime who fled to Honduras last year. To minimize their involvement, says Baldizon, the Sandinistas require neighboring guerrillas to ferry their own arms shipments. Visiting guerrillas are trained at bases in Nicaragua, he further claims, and are even provided with free plane flights on Cubana Airlines to Havana for more specialized instruction...
...white Cubana Airlines jet roared off the runway of Bogotá's El Dorado Airport Sunday morning for an unscheduled flight to Havana. Among the passengers were twelve diplomatic hostages, including U.S. Ambassador to Colombia Diego Asencio, and 15 armed members of the so-called M-19 guerrilla group. Four other diplomats and two Colombian civilians had been allowed to leave the plane minutes before takeoff; the remaining hostages were to be liberated upon arrival in Cuba, where President Fidel Castro had offered sanctuary to the terrorists. Thus ended the 61-day siege at the Dominican Republic embassy...