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...being sincere or is involved in trickery as evidence of a power struggle within the Sandinista leadership. An opposition politician asserted that Sandinista moderates had previously agreed to delay the vote in order to appease international opinion. This, he said, was reversed when Nicaraguan Interior Minister Tomas Borge Martinez and Planning Minister Henry Ruiz Hernandez returned from Eastern Europe two weeks ago. The moderates agreed not to delay the vote in return for the acceptance of the proposed Contadora pact. Their capitulation has angered the opposition, known as the Coordinadora, a coalition of political parties, businessmen and labor unions that...
Last week Secretary of Justice Nelson Martinez Acosta announced orders to arrest four people for murdering Vigoreaux. The stunning news: Echevarría was one of them. Acting on "motives of passion," Martinez charged, Echevarría offered a three-man contract-murder team more than $25,000 to do away with her husband. One of the deal's stipulations, the Secretary said, was that the hired team torture the victim before killing him. The trio brought along a fourth member to act as driver; he agreed to testify for the state in return for immunity from prosecution. Echevarr...
...Cleveland, I got nearly 20,000." His first album in English, 1100 Bel Air Place, was released in the U.S. last month and sold a million copies in its first five days on the shelves. "Real Americans are coming to hear Julio now," says his press manager, Fernan Martinez. "He has shown that he's universal...
...relaxed performance is the result of endless discipline and labor, and Iglesias is rarely satisfied. "He always wants more-more love, more houses, more records, more success," says Martinez. His marriage of eight years was annulled in 1979, and although he remains devoted to his three children, who live most of the time with their mother in Spain, he has very little else in his life but singing, rehearsing and singing some more. He has four houses scattered around the world, but his real home is a Mystère-Falcon 20, which jets him from gig to gig. "Everything...
Sweating profusely in the Nicaraguan heat on a March day in 1983, Pope John Paul II was forced to demand silence from a crowd of Sandinista hecklers present at an outdoor Mass in Managua. When Ernesto Cardenal Martinez, a Roman Catholic priest who also serves as Minister of Culture in Nicaragua's Marxist government, knelt to receive the Pope's blessing, John Paul wagged his finger in Cardenal's face and chided him, "You must straighten out your position with the church." These episodes, and his own keen observations during an eight-day-long visit to Central...