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...Nicaragua. Thirty-two months after seizing power, the Sandinistas are presiding over a country that feels threatened from abroad and is increasingly divided at home. The military and security forces are growing, the economy is crippled, the public increasingly disillusioned. Since July 1979, the country's foreign debt has more than doubled, from $1.5 billion to $3.5 billion, while per capita income has dropped from about $800 a year in 1978 to an estimated $650 in 1981. Instead of achieving the political democracy they promised, the Sandinistas have moved to consolidate their power by postponing elections until 1985, restricting freedom...
...including some avowed Communists) and forcefully moving against one of the country's minority groups, the Miskito Indians, whose loyalty to the new regime is suspect. Still, Nicaragua is not yet a totalitarian society. Outside the government, a limited pluralism is provided by such elements as the Nicaraguan Democratic Movement; the private sector, which accounts for over 60% of the country's G.N.P.; the Catholic bishops; and the independent daily La Prensa...
True to their Marxist-Leninist orientation, the Sandinista leaders make no secret of their "moral support" for the Salvadoran leftists. Still, they adamantly deny charges that they are channeling arms into El Salvador, although most objective observers are convinced that at least some weaponry is coming through Nicaragua. The considerable Cuban influence in Nicaragua is increasingly resented by the populace. There are now about 6,000 Cubans in the country, including teachers, doctors, technicians and advisers to the armed forces and state security apparatus. At a suburb outside Managua last week, a local resident pointed to some comfortable-looking villas...
...Salvadoran left-wing underground. By 1947 he was a member of the illegal Salvadoran Communist Party. A year later, he became secretary of organization for the party's central committee and displayed a talent for recruiting disaffected workers. In 1949 Carpio was arrested again, was deported to Nicaragua and ended up in Mexico. There he made an important friend, Bias Roca Calderio, then secretary-general of the Cuban Socialist Party, now a high-ranking member of the central committee of the Cuban Communist Party. In 1950 Bias Roca invited Carpio to Cuba to see how the Communist Party operated...
...photographs and clandestine reports have flowed across his desk every morning, convincing this President that a revolution in the Caribbean has been coaxed and fed by Moscow and Havana. The CIA gave the world a glimpse of that evidence last week. But documentation of a big military buildup in Nicaragua is only one fragment of the indoctrination the President has received in superpower chess...