Word: nicaragua
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...hear the blather about cold war consensus, one would think that the '80s never happened. At every turn, on every issue for which there presumably was one simple, knee-jerk, anti-Soviet answer -- the MX, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Grenada, "Euromissile" deployment -- there was deep division. And practically every time, liberals, so wistful now for the easy choices of yore, made the wrong choice...
History has shown that Americans have short term memories with regard to Latin American issues. What U.S. citizen remembers and can fully justify Operation "Just" Cause? Can anyone--except perhaps a federal agent--truly say that they know what happened in Nicaragua? The validity of Galbraith's statement is truly frightening. In six months, or maybe even less, NAFTA will just be another acronym in U.S. foreign policy history. But the truth is that if NAFTA does not get approved when voted in the U.S. Congress this week, not only Mexico, but much of Latin America, will remember the rejection...
Another retread from past U.S. foreign adventures is Henry Womack, who helped oversee construction of the base that the Reagan Administration-back ed contras used to stage attacks against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. By day Womack tends his southern Florida storm-shutter business. At night he hunkers down in an eight-bedroom yellow stucco house in South Miami with Francois' sister Elsie and her husband Charles Joseph. Their aim is to assist Haiti's military in presenting a "fresh face" to the world. Womack says he offers Haiti's rulers "a white man's thinking." Joseph has paid visits...
...career promptly went south faster than arms dealers on their way to Nicaragua. Since Kwiatkowski has taken over, Brown has gone...
Nicaraguan President Violeta Chamorro will oust Humberto Ortega, the Sandinista army chief. The announcement drew a denunciation from Daniel Ortega, Humberto's brother, who was President of the Sandinista government that ran Nicaragua for more than a decade. "You are not the owner of Nicaragua," he told his successor. But Chamorro's action could help unfreeze $94 million...