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...story "Challenge from the Contras" [Aug. 2], there is a photograph of members of the Directorate of the Sandinist National Liberation Front, making it appear that they were celebrating the third anniversary of the Sandinist Popular Revolution in Moscow. The photograph actually was taken in the city of Masaya, Nicaragua, on the 19th of July of this year. I do not believe that there was any ill will on the part of your magazine, but rather an involuntary error in the picture caption. Nonetheless, this does not help international understanding of the difficult situation that Nicaragua and the rest...
Ambassador of Nicaragua...
...biggest threat to the Sandinistas comes from Edén Pastora Gómez, 46, a flamboyant and popular former guerrilla leader known as Commander Zero. A hero of the Sandinista revolution, Pastora fled Nicaragua a year ago and eventually surfaced in Costa Rica last April. He passionately denounces his former comrades-in-arms as "traitors and murderers" and has called on the Nicaraguan people to "expel [them] from power." For the present, Pastora's strategy is to hope that his re-emergence will lead to the defection of other unhappy Sandinista supporters, and eventually divide the army...
...combat the threat posed by Pastora and the other contras, the Sandinista government is continuing the military buildup that has given Nicaragua the largest army in Central America. Last March it also declared a state of emergency in order to crack down on internal dissent. So far, according to a human rights organization, 300 people have been arrested for counterrevolutionary activities, and some 300 people have been detained and interrogated about their political activities. Many of them are campesinos, who are picked up in groups of 15 or 20 and may be held for more than a month. The Sandinistas...
...Sandinistas blame many of their problems on the U.S. Government, which discontinued most economic aid early in 1981 because it was convinced Nicaragua was abetting the leftist insurgency in El Salvador. Washington has pressured international lenders not to loan Nicaragua money. The U.S. says it wants to improve relations with the Sandinistas, but talks have repeatedly foundered over the question of aid to the Salvadoran guerrillas. Though State Department officials have denied that they are stalling, the U.S. doubts that negotiations with the Sandinistas would achieve anything. The U.S. may also be waiting to see what the contras...