Word: nicaragua
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...exiles remain the Nicaraguans, and along with their bank accounts they have brought a distinct brand of right-wing politics. As they mingle in South Florida society, they become the sad spokesmen of old allegiances and lost causes. "Juan Carlos," an exile who once ran a match factory in Nicaragua, now commutes from Honduras to Miami in search of funds for his guerrilla forays into his old homeland. "What they are doing is putting on a road show that they hope someone will see and support," says a veteran political exile. "The Bay of Pigs was born in Miami...
...Salvador. Haig wants increased U.S. military aid to the government of José Napoleon Duarte, which is stalemated in its war against leftist insurgents. The Secretary indicated that he was considering military steps, perhaps including naval action, to halt the flow of arms to the rebels from Cuba and Nicaragua. In what several Administration officials call ''an inversion of roles," Weinberger and his Pentagon aides have opposed Haig's State Department on that question, arguing that U.S. military involvement in El Salvador would be ineffective and ultimately dangerous...
...four business leaders were COSEP Directors Enrique Dreyfus, Benjamin Lanzas, Gilberto Cuadra and Enrique Bolanos. All had strongly supported the overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza. They had also advocated a mixed economy of socialism and free enterprise to rebuild Nicaragua's war-torn economy. But from the beginning, according to a Sandinista document, the government had planned to give the capitalists free rein only until it was able to take over the economy. COSEP members saw their control whittled away by nationalizations of banks, some industry and agricultural holdings. The economy became dependent upon an estimated $450 million...
...arrests of the COSEP leaders. Daniel Ortega, a junta member, went on television to claim that the revolution was under grave attack and that the government would first defend the country's workers, farmers and the poor. Said Ortega: "We are at the door of destruction in Nicaragua. We are arriving at a point of no return from which the government of national reconstruction will have difficulty regaining its legitimacy in the eyes of the people...
...immediately." The four Nicaraguan businessmen, said a U.S. spokesmen, were part of "a longstanding tradition of opposing oppression in their country." The arrest of the COSEP leaders may raise questions about a measure, passed by the Senate but not by the House, to send $33.3 million in aid to Nicaragua...