Word: nicaragua
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...Nicaragua how will you continue to support the contras...
...only sin was that of trying to give the Nicaraguan people all that they deserve, at the same time we were fighting a war against U.S. aggression." With those words of justification for Nicaragua's shattered economy, President Daniel Ortega last week imposed a drastic austerity program that will slash the national budget by almost half and lay off nearly 35,000 public employees, including 10,000 army personnel and 13,000 members of the security police. The measures are aimed at stimulating production, almost at a standstill, and exports, which have been cut nearly in half...
Ortega insisted that the ranks of Cuban military advisers in Nicaragua, estimated by Washington to number some 8,000, have been thinned. He said the number of Cubans has fallen from "hundreds, not thousands" to "dozens." Further reductions, he suggested, would be tied to the departure of several hundred U.S. military personnel in Honduras and El Salvador. That amounts to no small condition, but the continued presence of U.S. advisers in Central American countries that are allies of Washington would also be prohibited under the regional peace plan devised by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez and signed...
Afghanistan's war-weary people wonder when, not if, the Moscow-backed regime of President Najibullah will fall. -- A leftist attack reawakens Argentina's ugly memories of the 1970s. -- Nicaragua's Ortega says he is ready to make peace with Washington. -- The Soviet Union's first contested elections bring confusion and conflict...
Some speculate that Alvarez, a staunch anti-Communist, was targeted for his role in turning sections of Honduras into bases for the U.S. military and the U.S.-backed contras, who have been fighting to topple the Sandinista regime next door in Nicaragua. Cinchoneros leaders indicated they were avenging Alvarez's brutal attempt to crush their movement in the early 1980s, as well as the former general's part in the disappearance of 120 alleged subversives. Whatever the motive, Hondurans fear that growing political violence could turn their once placid nation into the Lebanon of Latin America...