Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, the nastiness of a regime often has little to do with its viability. Communist dictatorships, like the one that the Sandinistas would like to impose, almost always end up serving the interests of Moscow and ! therefore eliciting its stubborn support; by contrast, a right-wing junta like Chile's, largely because it is so distasteful to Americans, and to its own people, often ends up being in an isolated and untenable position, and therefore a geopolitical liability...
Uruguay's long democratic tradition was interrupted when a 24-member military junta seized power in 1973 from an ineffectual civilian government. The regime subsequently made a major miscalculation. Confident that Uruguay's 3 million people endorsed their stable but repressive rule, the generals held a referendum four years ago on measures that would have kept them in power. Instead, the proposals were overwhelmingly rejected, and the military eventually agreed to schedule last week's elections-subject to certain conditions. Two leading politicians were barred from running. One was Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, 66, leader of the Blanco...
...that the procedures under which the elections were held were unfair. Serving as an umbrella organization for the other nonparticipants was Nicaragua's most prominent opposition group, the Coordinadora, an amalgam of four opposition political parties, labor unions and businessmen led by Arturo Cruz Porras, a former Sandinista junta member. As a result, in Washington's view, no one except the Sandinistas had any chance...
Reagan has stated that he wants to make the Sundinistas cease supplying the guerrillas in El Salvador. Well, those guerrillas are still fully armed. The President would certainly enjoy seeing the Sandinistas sink into Central American anarchy, but the Sandinistas are stronger than ever. The Nicaraguan junta has been warning of an American invasion for more than two years. American muscle flexing and saber rattling gives them the best of both worlds, allowing the Sandinistas to capitalize on public fear of the Yankee threat without risking a war. And after a solid week of sonic booms over Managua-probably caused...
After the Sandinistas solidified their hold on the original, broad-based junta and purged it of non-Marxist elements, they perceived the need to maintain a powerful standing army for three reasons: first, to provide an internally repressive force to control the populace; second, to serve as a vehicle for indoctrination of most young Nicaraguan men and women, and for indirect indoctrination of older Nicaraguans through frequent drills, rallies, and "defense alerts" against potential U.S. invasion and finally, to be used as a tool of aggression against Nicaraguan's non-Marklet neighbors...