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...support within Nicaragua. I have gone to a number of towns in Nicaragua where I have found that the youth are simply not there. I ask their parents where they've gone, and they say they've gone off to join the contras. We stopped at a breadline in Managua. There were about 250 people. We asked them how long they had been there. About three hours. Had they had breadlines like this before the Sandinistas? No, just in the past two years. We asked who was responsible, and finally one woman said, "Come on, tell the truth: the Sandinistas...
...most of the week, Nicaraguan officials denied that Sandinista troops had crossed the border. In Managua, Joaquin Cuadra Lacayo, the army Chief of Staff, told reporters, "In the last several weeks we have mobilized many thousands of men to the border. But it is absolutely false that Nicaraguan troops have violated Honduran territory." But the Sandinistas undercut their own denials later. At a press conference on Friday, Ortega sought to justify but not deny the raid. "Honduras lost control of its sovereignty by having the mercenary forces there," he said, referring to the contras. "The border area is converted into...
...just suppose that all of the Reagan Administration's worst fears about the Soviets are true: that they are hell bent on destroying freedom and democracy wherever they can; that they are planning to take over Central America through their surrogates in Havana and Managua; and that they funnel arms and aid to every terrorist, drug trafficker and general bad guy in both hemispheres...
...Sandinistas openly profess solidarity with other revolutionary movements. On the outer walls of the Arab-Libyan cultural center in Managua are snapshots of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi reviewing troops. When Colombian terrorists raided the Palace of Justice in Bogota last year and had to be blasted out by government troops, the guerrillas were portrayed in the state- controlled Managuan press as victims of a governmentinstigated massacre...
...governments of the nearby Latin American democracies--Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama--have tried not to get caught in the cross fire between Managua and Washington. So far their policy has been to maintain passable relations with the Sandinistas and to keep the U.S. at arm's length. In Guatemala, for instance, newly elected President Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo describes his policy as "active neutrality." Some Central American leaders are worried that the U.S. will send in the Marines to overthrow the Sandinistas and thereby plunge the whole region into a conflagration. The Sandinistas...