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...effectively cut off by Congress last summer, following revelations that the intelligence agency had participated in the mining of Nicaraguan harbors. The U.S. has managed to keep pressure on the Sandinistas in a variety of other ways, including the staging of large-scale "training exercises" with Nicaragua's pro-U.S. neighbor Honduras. Convinced that a resumption of U.S. aid was needed not only to bolster the contras 'morale but also as a gesture of U.S. resolve, Reagan three weeks ago tied the funding request to a new Nicaraguan "peace initiative." If the Sandinistas would agree to hold negotiations with...
...president at New York's Citibank, which has $18.4 billion on loan to Latin America: "Progress in some countries is sometimes balanced by setbacks in others." Bolivia, which has an annual inflation rate of 3000%, stopped making payments on its $3.5 billion debt last May. The Sandinista government in Nicaragua is using at least 40% of its budget to fight its civil war and thus has no way to meet payments on its loans of $4.7 billion. Peru, which was rocked earlier this year by a violent three-week strike staged by 400,000 government workers, is $300 million behind...
...llez has served as president since 1998 of the Sandinista Renewal Movement, a political party allied with the leftist Sandinista movement in Nicaragua...
...llez had planned to teach two courses this spring: “From Revolution to Hope: Nicaragua and the Sandinista Aftermath,” and a seminar called “Caribbean Identity, Race, and Ethnicity.” The courses were to examine issues of social and religious thought, politics, and ethnicity...
...llez is currently finishing research on the history of coffee in Nicaragua for the Institute of Nicaraguan History and the Central American University. She is continuing in her position as the president of the Sandinista Renewal Movement Party, and wrote in an e-mail that she intends to run for Congress in Nicaragua...