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Fidel Castro, meanwhile, did not hesitate to show his own support. Within hours of the Sandinista victory, he began sending Cubans to work in Nicaragua as doctors, teachers, engineers and military advisers. Today they total more than 2,000. But Nicaragua does not seem to be turning into a docile Cuban appendage. Says William Baez, director of a private enterprise group: "The government wants to go to some kind of socialist situation, but they don't want another Cuba...
GUATEMALA. The upheavals in Nicaragua and El Salvador, in turn, have fed a rightist backlash in Guatemala. The main source of right-wing violence is the Secret Anti-Communist Army (ESA), a vigilante organization that appears to enjoy the cooperation of the country's repressive military leaders. The group's avowed mission: "Annihilate the left"-meaning anyone from a Marxist guerrilla to a moderate reformer. As in El Salvador, victims of ultraright hit squads include university students and professors, journalists, union leaders, priests and opposition politicians, many of whom have been tortured and mutilated. Armed leftists, meanwhile, have...
...Ambassador's hilltop residence in Managua, Nicaragua, is so imposing that it might easily be mistaken for a presidential palace or deluxe resort hotel. For decades the 20-room mansion was a fitting accessory to the role performed by a series of U.S. envoys. In those days, the American Ambassador was among the capital's top VIPS, acting as a kind of proconsul for U.S. commercial interests and as a guardian of the local status...
...that has changed. When Lawrence Pezzullo first arrived as U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua, he abandoned the monumental official residence for smaller quarters. Pezzullo, 54, is one of a new breed of U.S. envoys in Central America who have come to be called the "activists." Their job is to promote human as and moderate reform, and to build bridges with the opposition as well as with the government. At the same time, they must think fast and, when necessary, take independent action without instructions from Washington. "Perhaps more than ambassadors anywhere else in the world," says one State Department official, "they...
Often described as "gutsy" and "street smart" by fellow diplomats, onetime School Teacher Pez zullo is judged to be particularly effective in developing personal ties with Nicaragua's revolutionary Sandinista rulers at a time when nation-to-nation bonds are anything but happy. Relations between Washington and Managua were especially sticky during congressional stalling on the $75 million aid package. By the time it was approved, the Sandinistas were no longer grateful, to say the least. Pezzullo, who had fought hard for the aid's passage, managed to minimize the political damage...