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...This has little to do with the military situation and much to do with the electoral situation," said Virgilio Godoy, vice presidential candidate of the National Opposition Union, a 14-party coalition that is the Sandinistas' main election rival...
Only Lucy Nichols is no longer a member of the Sisters of St. Francis, and the person she and Jack are retrieving is not dead. Amelita Sosa has in fact been smuggled by Lucy out of Nicaragua, footsteps ahead of Colonel Dagoberto Godoy, a murderous former member of the Somoza military dictatorship and now a leader of the contras in their armed struggle against the ruling Sandinistas. The colonel, for rather complex reasons, has come to New Orleans to kill Amelita, his onetime mistress, and to solicit private businessmen for contributions to be used, ostensibly, to arm the contras...
...major setback came when Arturo Cruz Porras, widely considered to be the strongest opponent facing Sandinista Presidential Candidate Daniel Ortega Saavedra, decided once and for all three weeks ago not to run, claiming that the regime would not allow him to campaign freely. Then the next strongest rival, Virgilio Godoy Reyes of the Independent Liberal Party, announced last week that he too was dropping out. "There are not sufficient guarantees for an electoral process," said a Liberal Party official. "The results could not sincerely reflect the majority will of the Nicaraguan people." If that were not enough, Bishop Pablo Antonio...
...Godoy, a former Labor Minister who resigned last April to run for President, said that he withdrew because the government did not meet his party's longstanding conditions for participating in the election, including loosening press censorship laws and opening a national dialogue with Sandinista critics. "This is only a reaffirmation of what the Liberals have been saying for the past few months," said Godoy of his move. "There is a moment when you have to make a decision...
...Sandinistas blamed the U.S. for pressuring Godoy to drop out, a charge that both he and U.S. officials denied. Of the five opposition parties still in the race, two moderate groups-the Democratic Conservatives and the Popular Social Christians-may also bow out. That would leave only the Sandinistas and three small Marxist parties on the ballot, hardly a balanced choice. Though some Nicaraguans still hope that the government will postpone the elections and woo Godoy and Cruz back into the race, Ortega last week denied any such intentions. "Let it be clear that even if we have...