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Members of the Committee on Central America (COCA) said yesterday that the election of Violetta Barrios de Chamorro as president of Nicaragua was a victory for "American imperialism" and called on the Bush administration to end aid to the contras...
United States intervention helped Chamorro to defeat President Daniel Ortega in the Nicaragua's first elections on February 26, said members of COCA, which has actively supported the Sandinistas and protested U.S. policy in Central America...
...People [in COCA] were sad that the people of Nicaragua were essentially forced to vote for the candidate of the U.S.," said John Donaghy, a member of COCA...
...planning to circulate a petition at Harvard to encourage the Bush administration to end trade embargos and contra aid, Donaghy said. And on March 24, a COCA-organized group will travel to Washington to participate in a national protest over aid to El Salvador and the war in Nicaragua...
...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...