Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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White-gloved guards goose-stepped up to the monument commemorating their nation's most venerated martyr. Then Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Interior Minister Tomás Borge Martínez laid a single wreath on the tomb of Revolutionary Hero Carlos Fonseca Amador. Two dozen grammar school students, clad in denim shifts or designer jeans, shook their fists and cried, "The Yanquis will die!" before breaking into bashful giggles as adults smiled their approval. Finally, a high school marching band tramped loudly up to the monument, throwing a gaggle of preschoolers into disarray. As some toddlers cringed...
Like Luder, Alfonsin has pledged to repeal a law passed by the junta last September that, in effect, pardoned the military for crimes committed in the "dirty war." If, however, the new President tries to prosecute the guilty, as relatives of the victims have demanded, he risks alienating the generals. If he makes good on his pledge to reform trade union elections, he will infuriate the Peronists. Despite their setbacks, the military and the party of Peron would make potent allies and could sabotage Alfonsin's administration...
...voters could be lured away from their rote support of Peronismo. Said he: "It is intolerable that there should be any authoritarian component in a popular movement." He lost, but gained a name for himself in party ranks. When the Radicals held their nominating convention last July following the junta's vow to hold national elections, he was ready...
...Nicaraguan, I want to make one thing clear. General Augusto César Sandino was a man who hated dictatorships. He fought against foreign intervention, including that of the U.S. Marines, and desired a free Nicaragua. How can the present junta call itself Sandinista if no other significant political parties exist, if Soviet and Cuban advisers are on the scene, and if freedom of speech is abridged...
Nicaragua has reason to be concerned about Reagan's new willingness to wield American power. The U.S. has been covertly supporting contra terrorists attempting to overthrow that government. Daniel Ortega Saavedra, head of Nicaragua's junta, charged last week that the U.S. is preparing to manufacture a provocation that would justify an invasion. The revitalization of a Central American defense alliance known as CONDECA might serve as the vehicle to launch an American attack. The military chiefs of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala secretly met with the head of the U.S. Southern Command a month ago in Guatemala...