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That state reached a new height last week as the Nicaraguans watched Operation Big Pine taking place across the border. Claiming that Big Pine was the prelude to a major U.S.-backed invasion of Nicaragua, the Sandinista government called a full-scale alert in five frontier provinces. Green-uniformed guardsmen scanned border outposts for signs of more incursions of the kind that occurred at Bismuna...
...Miskito populations began to rise up. The Ministry of Defense said in its propaganda that the people who were fighting us were former national guardsmen [Somoza supporters], not Miskitos. On June 5, I participated in a firefight that was said to be with guardsmen, but it was really with Miskitos. They lost no one. We lost 19 men, officers as well as enlisted men. Twenty-two more were wounded. Only I and one other man were not hurt or killed. The regional chief of staff and his escort staff ran when the fighting started. When he decided to leave...
...years later, the authorities were prepared for Overtown. Within a day, National Guardsmen joined Miami police in sealing off a 200-block section of the city. Four helicopters flew over the neighborhood, dropping tear gas canisters. At one point, about 300 guardsmen and police were scouring the area, armed with gas, shotguns, revolvers and attack dogs...
...effort left many other Nicaraguan exiles unconvinced that the organization had changed. From his hilltop home overlooking the Costa Rican capital of San José, Pastora told TIME Reporter Timothy Loughran he still considered the F.D.N. bases in Honduras to be run by Somocistas, the name given the national guardsmen. Said Pastora: "It is a guard which until a short while ago was murdering us, and once it returns to Nicaragua, it will kill our young people, farmers and students...
...peasant farmers. Once recruited, they undergo a five-week CIA training course in Honduras. The instruction emphasizes ambush maneuvers but also includes marksmanship, compass work and radio operations. The campesinos return to Nicaragua in groups of 40 (including both men and women) under the supervision of five former Guardsmen...