Word: nicaragua
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...which since coming to office in May 1981 has studiously avoided open conflict with the Reagan Administration. Said French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson: "We no longer speak the same language. There is a remarkable incomprehension between Europe and the U.S." A recent French decision to renew arms sales to Nicaragua, despite a quiet pledge to Washington not to do so, has been widely interpreted as a signal of growing French pique over the sanctions...
...celebration of the third anniversary of Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution, the dusty provincial town of Masaya, 18 miles southeast of the capital city of Managua, last week was colorfully decorated with flags and posters. A band played revolutionary songs, and the crowds sang along. But there was little cheer in the speech delivered by Daniel Ortega Saavedra, a member of the all-powerful nine-man Sandinista Directorate. "Nicaragua is undergoing a silent, yet bloody invasion," he declared. Ortega charged that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the Honduran armed forces were supporting more than 2,000 rebels who have...
...group responsible for much of the military action is the Nicaraguan Democratic Front (F.D.N.), which claims to have 2,000 armed men who make regular incursions into Nicaragua from their sanctuaries in Honduras. Led by José Francisco Cardenal Telleria, a civil engineer, the F.D.N. has been especially active since March. Linked to the F.D.N. are many Miskito Indians who resent the Sandinistas for having forced thousands of them out of their homes along the Honduran border and into internment camps. The Miskitos are now in open revolt, and running battles with the Nacaraguan armed forces have been going...
...Lopez Portillo called for negotiations with the guerrillas, thereby undercutting U.S. support for the civihan-military regime. He has frequently offered to act as an intermediary between the U.S. and Cuba over the crisis in Central America and has espoused the cause of the Marxist-Leninist Sandinista rulers of Nicaragua. On the touchy issue of the recent Falkland Is lands war, Lopez Portillo tried to have it both ways. His government supported Argentina's claim to sovereignty over the islands but also deplored the use of force in trying to settle the claim...
...military junta, a multinational corporation or an American ambassador surrounded by a jevy of technical advisers. That the junta in Buenos Aires, acting under the impression that it had been given the green light by the [Reagan Administration] in exchange for mercenary services in the destabilization of Nicaragua, should have so perverted the sense of nationalism in Latin America is a sorry fact...