Word: managua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their disobedience, we have decreed the contras. In arming and pushing the contras into battle against the Sandinistas, the United States has created a scenario. If we support the contras, we place our national interest in their hands. If the contras cannot win, as no one in Washington or Managua expects them to do by themselves, sooner or later the United States has to send troops to their rescue or sacrifice our credibility as an ally. If we rescue effectively, we have to invade...
...American, one of the few international volunteers helping the Managua regime, lived in Nicaragua for several years and knew perfectly the risks he ran by being in a war zone accompanied by Sandinista soldiers," the statement said...
...President Ortega tells Rushdie, la Cia is responsible for most of the contras' strength. Popular support for the Managua regime is demonstrated by the Sandinistas' ability to arm peasants to fight against the contras without fear of an uprising. But why have the Miskito Indians, who live at the heart of the war zone not been similarily armed? This book offers no explanation, despite Rushdie's claim that the Sandinistas and Miskitos have reached a reconciliation...
RUSHDIE GOES farther than simply presenting the straight "party line," however. He comes across as an apologist for Managua. For example, he announces that the Sandinistas can be excused for their past repression of the Miskitos because that tribe, he claims, bullied its neighbors. Yet even the Sandinistas admit their guilt on this matter. Rushdie makes excuses for past Sandinista excesses which now even they find inexcusable...
With its huge vacant lots and denuded downtown, modern Managua resembles a blank screen onto which outsiders can project their most wishful fears or fantasies...