Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearby bed, pick out a thick file, and sit down again. The files remained unopened on his lap; I sensed that Cardenal was using them as symbolic justification for the points he was trying to make. But even without concrete proof, the Nicaraguan's arguments against the ruling Sandinista junta were often convincing and disconcerting for a liberal listener...
This line of reasoniong, says Cardenal, is a naive way of looking at reality. The ruling junta was Marxist from the start, he claims, and is using perceived U.S. bellicosity as an excuse for authoritarian rule. "They had no intention of doing things any differently," Cardenal argues. The ambiguity of American policy though, has given Sandinista actions legitimacy in the eyes of many third parties...
...university for the military training of the future butchers of workers and peasants around the world. Fully 70 percent of U.S. Army officers are recruited and trained by ROTC. Today their "adventures" include a Bay of Pigs II against Nicaragua, arming and training the bloody Salvadoran junta, dropping napalm (invented at Harvard) on Cambodia. Tomorrow they hope to annihilate the USSR...
Bignone's government declared the strike illegal but shied away from taking punitive measures. The junta now faces an uncomfortable dilemma. It cannot buy off the unions, given the economic climate. Yet if the regime stands firm, it will almost certainly face further work stoppages. Last week's strike, said Admiral Rubén Oscar Franco, a member of the three-man ruling junta, "demonstrated an irresponsible and inflexible attitude on the part of the union leadership...
...another blow to the junta's prestige came after police closed the offices of the weekly Buenos Aires magazine La Semana. The offense: publishing an article critical of Captain Alfredo Astiz, the officer who surrendered the Argentine garrison on South Georgia to the British and who was accused of torture and murder after infiltrating the human rights movement during the "dirty war" in 1977. La Semana's editor, Jorge Fontevecchia, successfully sought asylum in Venezuela last week. Shortly thereafter, however, a federal court judge ruled that there was nothing offensive in the article and ordered the junta...