Word: nicaragua
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...world breathed a sigh of relief when Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and President-Elect Violeta Chamorro embraced last Monday. Nicaragua's freest and fairest election ever seemed to go off smoothly, indicating that world leaders may soon be free of any entanglement with the country's civil war. President Bush even congratulated Ortega last week on "the conduct of the election and on his pledge to stand by the results...
Many observers blame the United States for Nicaragua's economic troubles and say the election was ultimately decided on economic grounds. In part it was. But ill-planned "reforms," mostly in the form of nationalization and collectivization are just as much to blame for the devastation of the Nicaraguan economy...
...Chamorro respects the will of the people and does not try to cast them into an ill-conceived and pre-conceived mold, she will bring them the peace her country has not known since before the Samozas took power. And with peace will come prosperity and human rights that Nicaragua has never fully known...
Last December tiny Benin in western Africa dropped Marxism-Leninism as the state ideology and vowed to support private enterprise. Nicaragua, which over the past year has watched Moscow turn off the arms spigot, is in the final throes of an election process that, whatever the outcome, shows promise of being a legitimate democratic exercise. Even Libya's erratic Muammar Gaddafi, a regular Soviet arms customer, is cultivating closer ties with moderate Arab leaders. Most Soviet client states are making similar adjustments to accommodate the fast-changing times. A look at some of the most important...
...hoping to pressure the [Bush] administration to demobilize the Contras as soon as possible," said Donaghy in reaction to the February 26th election in Nicaragua...