Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SAPOA, Nicaragua--The government and Contra rebels declared a 60-day ceasefire late Wednesday, agreeing to negotiate an end to their six-year war and signing an accord that promises the rebels a role in Nicaragua's political process...
...called the plan "a great challenge for all Nicaraguans" and called on the United States "to support this effort and get ready to normalize its relations with Nicaragua...
...sides publicly swear to uphold the Arias Plan, yet, as the events of the past week make clear, they privately seek to undermine it. The resulting tragedy is that the Arias Plan, which represented the only real hope for peace and democracy in Nicaragua and throughout Central America, is now on its deathbed...
...Sandinistas, on the other hand, are hoping to cripple severely the contra resistance--putting them in a greatly weakened position for their first high-level face-to-face negotiations within Nicaragua this week. Indeed, Costa Riean President and Nobel Laureate Oscar Arias Sanchez, who has repeatedly criticized the Nicaraguan government's failure to comply with the peace plan he designed, denounced last week's Honduran raid as a blow to the peace process and said it revealed that the Sandinistas are more concerned with eliminating the contras than negotiating with them...
...White House shouldn't throw War-Powers-Act stones in glass rotundas. They are equally--if not more--to blame as the Reagan Administration for our failure to pursue a coherent foreign policy in an area which was once so secure as to be called "America's backyard". Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama show the indecision and weakness that can erupt when the executive and legislative branches refuse to cooperate on foreign relations...