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...real burden fell on Nicaragua. The U.S. strategy proved excruciatingly slow and extremely expensive, and it inflicted the most pain on the wrong people. The past ten years have savaged the country's civilians, not its comandantes. Since 1985 Washington has strangled Nicaraguan trade with an embargo. It has cut off Nicaragua's credit at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The contra war cost Managua tens of millions and left the country with wrecked bridges, sabotaged power stations and ruined farms. The impoverishment of the people of Nicaragua was a harrowing way to give the National Opposition...
...Bush Administration, caught off guard along with everyone else, has not yet unveiled a coherent plan to help Chamorro consolidate her victory. Bush has promised to let the five-year trade embargo lapse when Chamorro takes office, and he will no doubt agree to restoring Nicaragua's credit at the international lending institutions. He will resume full diplomatic relations. But his aides have been quick to dismiss the notion of a cash windfall. "It will not be anywhere near what some of the Nicaraguans are asking," said an Administration official. The U.S. is strapped for money for its own domestic...
...fruits and vegetables are hard to find. The widening rift between Havana and Moscow has caused other deprivations. The Soviet Union's increasing unwillingness -- or inability -- to continue carrying the Cuban economy has created severe shortages of flour, bread, razor blades and TV sets. The long-standing U.S. trade embargo continues to take its toll as well...
...years. Economic reforms begun in 1987 have included devaluing the currency, slashing subsidies for state enterprises and permitting a free market to blossom. The results have been encouraging. Last year Viet Nam exported more than 1 million tons of rice, the largest shipment in decades. But a U.S. trade embargo remains intact, and Viet Nam's Soviet and East European trading partners are looking elsewhere for hard-currency deals. Hence Viet Nam, which owes Moscow $16 billion, is desperately courting foreign investors...
COCA members said that they wanted the U.S. to discontinue aid to the contras and the trade embargo, and to let go of its foothold in UNO, the coalition of 14 parties that helped spring Chamorro to victory...