Word: nicaragua
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...green but the West is definitely white. In fact that is what upsets Ronald Reagan so much about the crimes that the South Africa government commits. These guys are so, so, so white. I mean, who cares about the atrocities the Contras commit in the jungles of Nicaragua? And plus they're fighting with a Cardinal's backing...
Based on past experience, Hillson says he still expects to be excluded from the ballot. He compares U.S. election law unfavorably with that of Nicaragua. Even those who disagree with Hillson's politics should defend his place on the ballot, because their own civil rights will be endangered if his are denied...
...Pope John Paul II during his pastoral visit to Colombia last week. The Pontiff delivered a speech declaring that he found Vega's expulsion a "nearly incredible act" that was reminiscent of the "dark ages," when priests in Latin America were persecuted. Vega, the second-ranking Catholic prelate in Nicaragua, was taken to the Honduran border by Sandinista police on July...
...antichurch actions followed closely on the heels of the June 26 shutdown of La Prensa, the only remaining opposition daily in Managua. The 60- year-old newspaper's campaign against Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle once helped to put the revolutionary regime in power. Even so, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega Saavedra insists that La Prensa has become a vehicle for CIA propaganda and will remain closed until the "war" is over...
...blistering attack on the record of the Nicaraguan regime by the International League for Human Rights was based in part on a weeklong fact- finding trip to Nicaragua in February led by Patricia Derian, former President Jimmy Carter's human rights chief. It catalogs dozens of Nicaraguan violations, including torture, denial of due process to thousands of political detainees, and refusal to allow labor unions to strike or engage in collective bargaining. "The recent actions of the government to expel two Roman Catholic priests and the closing down of the newspaper La Prensa are not new," concedes Nina Shea...