Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is a nation that, with the triumph of the revolution, moralized itself. The people have been able to recuperate national pride, the pride of being a Nicaraguan...
...private side. During my clandestine days, there was no room for a personal life. With the triumph, there are more possibilities for a personal life, but it is always shared with an obligation to the Nicaraguan people...
...backed contra challenge. Yet it is clear that the Sandinistas have long since backed away from their three original pledges, if they were ever meant seriously. In its foreign policy, Nicaragua today is indisputably aligned with Moscow. The comandantes both vacation and attend conferences in East bloc countries, Nicaraguan students are sent to schools in Cuba and the Soviet Union, and the country's formidable military forces are armed by Moscow and trained by Cuban and Soviet advisers. The Sandinistas say their sympathies are understandable. Whereas the U.S. mined Nicaragua's harbors, the Soviet Union provided helicopter gunships to combat...
...there is no denying that the Sandinistas have imposed severe totalitarian restraints on the Nicaraguan people. Nina Shea of the New York City-based International League for Human Rights recently led a small delegation to Nicaragua to try to answer the question, How free is a Nicaraguan not to be a Sandinista? Some members of the Roman Catholic Church, opposition political parties and labor organizations, she says, suffer "undisguised and hidden repression." Her team heard repeated accounts of arbitrary arrests and interrogations that included food and water deprivation, simulated executions, and detention in dark cells. "The country...
Still, opposition parties are entitled to hold rallies, post billboards along the highways and publish newsletters, although they are subjected to government censorship. Ironically, the Sandinistas suffer some of the most heated criticism from the leftist parties. Eli Altamirano, president of the Nicaraguan Communist Party, charges, "The Sandinistas are ideologically promiscuous. They have priests, nuns, evangelicals and bourgeois in their government. It has nothing to do with Marxism-Leninism." None of the parties have achieved the popularity of the ruling F.S.L.N., and no politician has emerged as the primary opposition spokesman...