Word: managua
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...waited for a traffic light to change in Managua, a hotel driver named Andres Garcia idly furled and unfurled a tiny American flag that he had been given while making a delivery to the U.S. embassy. A passing policeman, seeing the flag, pulled Garcia, 45, over to the curb and searched him. He discovered U.S. dollars in the driver's pocket and promptly threw him in jail...
Garcia's fate is a telling sign of the nervous mood in Managua these days. The Sandinista regime is repressing any activity that may be construed as disloyal. In the process, the nine-man Sandinista Directorate does not hesitate to trample on civil rights, as a report released last week by the New York City-based International League for Human Rights makes all too clear. The government has also embarked on a military buildup, based on its insistence that the country is now on a virtual war footing with the U.S. The rationale for a buildup was strengthened last month...
...been almost eight years since Eden Pastora Gomez, the Sandinistas' legendary "Commander Zero," stormed Managua's National Palace, paving the way for Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle's flight into exile. Soon feeling % powerless in a government that he charged was run by Communists, Pastora helped form the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE) and began receiving covert U.S. aid to fight the Sandinistas. But the funds were cut off when Pastora refused to cooperate with other rebel forces...
Shortly before fleeing into exile in 1979, Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle erupted in fury over what he regarded as the complicity of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the Sandinista revolution. In particular, said Somoza, Archbishop Miguel Obando y Bravo of Managua should receive the new title of "Comandante Miguel." In fact, six years of increasingly harsh rule by the Marxist-oriented Sandinistas has brought Obando new prominence--and, indeed, notoriety. In 1985 Pope John Paul II elevated him to the College of Cardinals. He has emerged, in the eyes of Nicaragua's rulers, as their toughest critic. Foreign Minister...
Then came the deluge. In October 1984 Leiken (rhymes with bacon) published an article in the New Republic titled "Nicaragua's Untold Stories." It was a searing indictment of the Managua regime that accused the Sandinistas of repression, corruption, political manipulation and fealty to Moscow...