Word: democratica
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Assembly, which was elected last November. The Sandinistas hold 61 of 96 seats, reflecting their 66% election majority. The remainder are divided among six small parties that are described as opposition but that often vote with the Sandinistas. The main opposition group outside the legislature, the Coordinadora Democratica Nicaraguense, refused to participate in the election and remains leaderless and in disarray. In any case, the work of the Assembly is largely peripheral. Under a constitutional state of emergency declared in 1982 in response to the contra threats, almost all important decisions are enacted by presidential decree...
...scare tactics proved highly effective. Most shops and schools in the capital's restive slums remained open, a change from previous protest demonstrations. University students held anti-Pinochet demonstrations on several campuses, but the crowds were small by past standards. Several leaders of the five-party Alianza Democratica, the main opposition group, did not endorse the protest for fear of running afoul of the siege order's ban on public gatherings; nonetheless, about ten Alianza leaders lined up in front of Santiago's cathedral and sang the national anthem. As they dispersed, a water cannon lumbered into...
...years overwhelmingly confirmed that the ele gant presidential residence, La Casona, would be getting a new tenant. By a thumping 8-to-5 margin, voters had ousted the centrist Social Christian Party in favor of the country's strongest grass roots political force, the center-left Action Democratica under its amiable, soft-spoken leader, Jaime Lusinchi, 59. Said an exuberant Lusinchi after the vote...
Facing up to the debt crisis will be the sternest test for Lusinchi, a pediatrician who has spent 40 years working for Action Democratica, chiefly as a quiet but effective grass-roots organizer. Though he is a populist by inclination, he will confront the need to administer a stiff dose of austerity after taking office next February...
...attacks inside Nicaragua. The Somocistas, as they were known, were demoralized and poorly organized. The U.S. set about forcing the various factions to unite under a central command, while the CIA began recruiting students, farmers and other civilians to beef up the force. Then, early this year, the Fuerza Democratica Nicaragiiense (F.D.N.) was established to serve as a respectable political front group for the contras. Though the Guardsmen supposedly do not hold leadership positions in the F.D.N., they do, in fact, run some military operations...