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...military threat posed by the contras. "We expect we will have mercenaries in Nicaragua for a long time, but we have made many advances in cutting their social base," President Daniel Ortega Saavedra recently told TIME. "They are now a weakened, reduced force." The President's younger brother, General Humberto Ortega Saavedra, the Defense Minister and an increasingly visible member of the Sandinista directorate, concurs. Of last week's attack in Managua, he says, "They have moved to this kind of activity because they have no political program. But this erodes their credibility. They can wear us out, but they...
...third poorest nation in the hemisphere, Honduras is more than eager to receive the $100 million, as well as the $80 million that Washington is sending this year to strengthen the country's military, which is led by General Humberto Regalado Hernandez. Yet many Hondurans feel that the government of President Jose Azcona Hoyo is forfeiting its stability and independence to gain the Yanqui money...
...Cardinal, while uncovering his professor's narrow-mindedness, reveals his own by refusing to dialogue on the issue of homosexuality. On several occasions he has declined to grant an audience to representatives of Dignity/Boston, a gay and lesbian Catholic organization. In addition, an aide to Law's predecessor, Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, even refused to accept a donation check which Dignity contributed to the Cardinal Stuart Fund, a church-sponsored charity...
...Cesar Sandino, who was killed by the dictatorship's National Guard. Both father and mother were imprisoned under the first Somoza regime, and Daniel was jailed for his activism at the age of 15. His younger brother Camilo was killed in 1978 during the Nicaraguan revolution, and another brother, Humberto, fought side by side with Daniel until the Sandinistas took Managua...
...strength of that bond, the Sandinistas came to power. After serving as the first among equals in the party command and in the nine-man National Directorate, he won the presidency in a 1984 election that was boycotted by most of the moderate opposition parties. His brother Humberto became Defense Minister...