Word: masaya
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nicaraguans Celebrated in Masaya...
...your story "Challenge from the Contras" [Aug. 2], there is a photograph of members of the Directorate of the Sandinist National Liberation Front, making it appear that they were celebrating the third anniversary of the Sandinist Popular Revolution in Moscow. The photograph actually was taken in the city of Masaya, Nicaragua, on the 19th of July of this year. I do not believe that there was any ill will on the part of your magazine, but rather an involuntary error in the picture caption. Nonetheless, this does not help international understanding of the difficult situation that Nicaragua and the rest...
...celebration of the third anniversary of Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution, the dusty provincial town of Masaya, 18 miles southeast of the capital city of Managua, last week was colorfully decorated with flags and posters. A band played revolutionary songs, and the crowds sang along. But there was little cheer in the speech delivered by Daniel Ortega Saavedra, a member of the all-powerful nine-man Sandinista Directorate. "Nicaragua is undergoing a silent, yet bloody invasion," he declared. Ortega charged that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the Honduran armed forces were supporting more than 2,000 rebels who have...
...party line for women disturbed by this, Reyes says, is that one must wait, that revolutions--particularly personal ones--don't occur overnight, and that you should forgive men who cling to pre-revolutionary notions, Several former comandantes interviewed in Managua, Leon, Grenada and Masaya seemed willing to wait for this internal change to occur within their macho men. "After all," says one, "it's not their fault they were brought up a certain way. You've got to be patient--they're trying hard." But there were just as many whose patience was running out, who felt "we changed...