Word: nicaragua
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...BEEN MORE THAN 130 years since Cornelius Vanderbilt purchased exclusive right of way across the narrow strip of land that separates Atlantic and Pacific in Nicaragua. It has been 46 years since General Anastasio Somoza Garcia took control of the Nicaraguan National Guard from the United States Marines and promptly ordered the murder of nationalist hero Augusto Sandino. And it has been several months now since the front pages of America's newspapers sported gory tales of the thousands of civilian deaths that the same National Guard caused in the wake of the massive but unsuccessful popular uprising that racked...
...strange silence of reportage from Nicaragua does not mean, however, that the violence has ended. "The level of pressure is just tremendous," a recently returned observor said last week, noting "there are checkpoints virtually everywhere." Scattered reports indicate that people are dying (mostly at the hands of the 10,000 member American-trained Guard) at the rate of five or six per day. The victims range from the scores of young men who have been picked up by the Guard only to turn up lifeless on some roadside the next morning, to the five children who tried two weeks...
...Harvard delegates represent the University, acting the parts of representatives from Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Yemen, and Oman...
Give the Pudding show a chance, and save your own overtures for South Africa, Nicaragua or Staten Island...
Attacked from without, the church is dangerously divided within over its social strategy in a region ground down by staggering poverty as well as political oppression. As Sister Marta Freeh Lopez, a missionary nun in Nicaragua, told TIME'S Bernard Diederich, "I am certainly not a Marxist, but while we in the church have contented ourselves with teaching the Lord's Prayer, the Marxists are out offering solutions to existing problems...