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...Bush Administration, caught off guard along with everyone else, has not yet unveiled a coherent plan to help Chamorro consolidate her victory. Bush has promised to let the five-year trade embargo lapse when Chamorro takes office, and he will no doubt agree to restoring Nicaragua's credit at the international lending institutions. He will resume full diplomatic relations. But his aides have been quick to dismiss the notion of a cash windfall. "It will not be anywhere near what some of the Nicaraguans are asking," said an Administration official. The U.S. is strapped for money for its own domestic...
...Sandinistas' defeat and the capture of Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega have removed two of the most divisive and destabilizing factors in U.S. relations with Latin America. With El Salvador's leftist guerrillas likely to be undercut by a halt in support from Nicaragua and Cuba isolated as never before, the U.S. has an opportunity to move beyond its 30- year struggle with Marxism in the region. It can stop using Nicaragua as an ideological battleground and start treating it like a needy neighbor. But to turn this electoral triumph into something substantial and lasting, Washington will have...
Also to learn. Chamorro owes her election not to any natural gift for leadership but to her married name. Though graced with regal poise and an engaging personality, she has had little experience in public life. Her grasp of Nicaragua's Sisyphean economic challenge is tenuous, and her political range is narrow: at least initially, she is leaning heavily on the dozen family members and advisers who constitute her brain trust...
...Born into a wealthy cattle-ranching family, Violeta Barrios enjoyed a charmed girlhood that included private schooling in Texas. She plunged abruptly into the teeming currents of Latin politics in 1950 when she wed Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, the crusading, ambitious publisher of the daily La Prensa. His opposition to Nicaragua's Somoza family dictatorship frequently landed him in jail. While raising their four children, Violeta also carried food to Pedro's cell and smuggled notes to his confederates...
Chamorro is certain she can suture Nicaragua's self-inflicted wounds. Abolishing the unpopular military draft will be the first step. She must also rein in Godoy, whose statements during the campaign suggested that settling old scores might be the new government's top priority. At her first press conference, the President-elect made a point of fielding tough questions herself and praising Ortega for his concession of defeat...