Word: managua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest Sandinista stumble began last weekend, after Managua learned that the U.S. press would carry the damning charges of a recent Nicaraguan defector, Major Roger Miranda Bengoechea, who had occupied a top post in the Defense Ministry. Hoping to pre-empt Miranda's charges of a planned military buildup, Humberto Ortega delivered a powerful speech reaffirming Sandinista plans to arm up to 600,000 Nicaraguans and obtain Soviet MiG-21 jet fighters by 1995. Unflinchingly defiant toward the U.S., Humberto thundered, "We do not need to hide our relations with the socialist camp in defense matters...
...Managua continues to provide logistical and materiel support to leftist rebels in El Salvador and Guatemala despite repeated denials that it is doing...
...MANAGUA, Nicaragua--While the Contras said yesterday during a unilateral cease-fire they would stop fighting, President Daniel Ortega rejected their offer, saying it would not stop the United States from aiding the rebels...
...Nicaragua, the Sandinistas provided no reception for opponents who had flown to the region from the U.S. In fact, they never allowed them into Nicaraguan territory at all. Contra Leaders Alfonso Robelo and Maria Azucena Ferrey tried to reach Managua last week to present counterproposals to the cease-fire conditions that the Sandinistas had drawn up to fulfill the terms of the peace plan. The contras had planned to hand their proposals directly to Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, who is expected to mediate between the guerrillas and the government. Forbidden to enter Nicaraguan territory unless they accept amnesty from...
...meantime, compliance with other facets of the peace accord goes forward in fits and starts. Last week the Sandinistas released 985 political prisoners from the Tipitapa limited-security prison, 13 miles north of Managua. El Salvador has already set free 474 political prisoners as part of the mandated amnesty, and may release more soon. Unfortunately, the amnesty erases, perhaps forever, the possibility of prosecuting those who may be responsible for some of El Salvador's most shameful moments. Apart from the perpetrators of thousands of unsolved Salvadoran slayings, those who may be freed include the three men suspected of killing...