Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NICARAGUA: Hostage Game...
...evident when the standoff ended without spilled blood, most Nicaraguans saw little cause to celebrate. The conditions that provoked the confrontation -- governmental disarray, unpopular political appointments, unsettled land grievances and shattered economic hopes -- remain unaffected. Though few citizens are girding for a resumption of the civil war that despoiled Nicaragua throughout the 1980s, there is a palpable fear that if the two sides do not continue a dialogue, the country will sink from political polarization into chaos. "Our tradition has been to divide in times of crisis," says Jose Pallais, the Deputy Foreign Minister. "The solution has always been...
...spectacle was hardly edifying to Washington. For most of a decade, the U.S. made Nicaragua a prime ideological battleground, spending hundreds of millions of dollars, enduring bitter domestic debate and engaging in illegal- arms deals to face down Managua's Soviet-backed rulers. Only the end of the cold war prompted the two superpowers to bow out. Americans thought Nicaragua's problems were solved when Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was elected President in early...
...tenure. If her former allies mount a legislative challenge, Chamorro has little strength to fight back: she now commands the loyalty of only her Cabinet ministers. Yet neither Sandinista nor U.N.O. leaders are clamoring for the job. The truth is that no one wants, or knows how, to govern Nicaragua today...
More than 70 hostages were released in Nicaragua after being held by two rival ; groups for nearly a week, ending a tragicomic crisis that raised fears of a new civil war. Shortly after former anticommunist contra guerrillas freed some 38 members of a peace commission, a group of former Sandinista soldiers let go 34 politicians they had seized, including the Vice President. Both sets of captors were virtually guaranteed immunity from prosecution as well as consideration of their demands for land, loans and other...