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...Kremlin regards Nicaragua as a "target of opportunity, and therefore useful, but also expendable," says a State Department official. Moscow "provides only enough military aid to make United States military intervention costly and save the Soviet 'revolutionary' reputation, not enough to guarantee survival or risk confrontation," writes Robert Leiken, a Central American expert with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington think tank...
...rebels themselves tend to be untrained and uneducated peasants. "The FDN," says Robert Leiken, a Latin American expert from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, "has shown little interest in recruiting educated, urban cadres, who tend to have political differences with the FDN leadership." According to the Administration report, contra fighters often lack the skill to read maps, maintain technical equipment or carry out tactical maneuvers...
...postponed. The U.S. supports delaying the elections in order to give more preparation time to opposition candidates. The most prominent among them is Arturo Cruz, a disillusioned former member of the Sandinista junta. "They are very, very tricky," said Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Senior Associate Robert Leiken, who recently wrote a scathing indictment of the Sandinista regime for the New Republic. Scheduling the vote for Nov. 4, he said, 'means that none of this [the "ontadora draft treaty] would apply to their elections...
...that Nicaragua is a country backed close to the wall and that the Sandinistas are aware that their plight might worsen if Ronald Reagan is reelected. There is, in fact, little doubt that Nicaragua is now in trouble economically, and has suffered from attacks by the marauding contras. Robert Leiken, a senior fellow with the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, describes Nicaragua's economic situation as "really rough, just unbelievable." Leiken cites food shortages in the countryside, wildcat strikes in Sandinista-controlled trade unions and widespread protests against the Sandinistas' use of national conscription to defend...
...this confrontation between Britain and Latin America will be the U.S." Panama President Aristides Royo has accused the U.S. of betraying its Latin neighbors by "changing hats and choosing sides when it should have remained neutral." Most U.S. experts take Latin America's anger seriously. Says Robert Leiken of Georgetown University: "This has struck a very deep nerve." The U.S. is viewed as tricky, sly and selling out its Latin friends...