Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...touts the virtues of foreign intervention and the necessity of aiding the illegal war in Nicaragua. Twenty years ago, he was content to allow his family to keep him out of Vietnam. As a senator, he has voted against funding polio immunization programs. He has voted against school lunch programs. When asked how he could justify that vote to poor families, he responded: "They didn't ask me those questions." His civil rights rating is among the lowest in the Senate. In the area of foreign policy, he has said that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is merely a modern...
Peruvian friends are pleased with my choice. Dukakis talks peace in Central America, speaks Spanish and studied at Lima's University de San Marcos. Vice President George Bush is a former CIA head, part of an Administration that broke U.S. law to continue Nicaragua's civil war and a supporter of the Republican tradition in foreign policy. Every Republican since World War II has aided the bloody overthrow of a Latin American government...
...inordinate influence of American culture. "I doubt that one American out of 10,000 would know who Sandino was," he says, referring to the Nicaraguan guerrilla leader who in the late 1920s and early 1930s defiantly resisted U.S. intervention in his country and whose name was appropriated by Nicaragua's currently reigning Sandinistas. "Yet nine out of ten Latins know who George Washington...
Solentiname was a traditional peasant community on an archipelago off the coast of Nicaragua. Poet-priest Ernesto Cardenal, who became Minister of Culture after the Sandinistas came to power, went to Solentiname to teach the peasants to read. A friend of Cardenal also began a poetry workshop, teaching the previously illiterate peasants to write their own poetry, Gullette said...
...keeping with Amnesty's policy of ideological impartiality, the report includes entries on the Soviet Union and Nicaragua, South Africa and Paraguay, as well as Israel, France and even Switzerland (for sentencing 600 people to imprisonment or suspended imprisonment for refusing military service). The U.S. is cited for executing 25 convicts in 1987 and for its harsh treatment of more than 2,000 Cubans detained in Georgia and Louisiana since the 1980 Mariel boat lift. The Soviet Union's black marks include sending at least 300 people to prison, into exile or to psychiatric hospitals. Explains Amnesty's U.S. executive...