Word: maritza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could hear the noisy arguments from the billiard room and bar next door as I knocked on the door of the ground-floor apartment where she lived. Maritza's Mama let me in. "Your Big Sister's here, Maritza...
...sorry for not coming last week. I was sick," I announced to the small, dark room where eight-year-old Maritza sat basking in the irregular glow of the television set. Guilt strangled me, because I knew I could, and should, have gone...
Government and religious pressure seem to be successful. According to Maritza Flores Vega, a spokesman for the National Ministry of Health, less than 10 per cent of Nicaraguan women use birth control. Why? "Partly because people want children born in 'Free Nicaragua,' and partly because many uneducated women associate contraception with Somoza's forcibly sterilizing thousands of peasant women...