Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That aggression seems to be taking a new form, at least in the Sandinistas' view. An earlier suspension of civil rights in 1982 was blamed largely on attacks by U.S.-backed contra rebels. But many outside observers now agree with the Nicaraguan military's assertion that contra activities are being contained for the moment. This time the decree was aimed at another, possibly more dangerous, threat: the Catholic Church and legitimate political parties, professional associations and independent unions that oppose the Sandinistas from within the country. The government fears that all these domestic opponents might band together with the contras...
More than two months after Congress approved $27 million in nonmilitary, "humanitarian" assistance to help Nicaragua's contra rebels in their fight against the Sandinista government, money is finally flowing to the insurgents. As of last week the Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Office, which was set up by the Reagan Administration to distribute the funds, had dispensed $400,000 in aid. But rebel leaders are complaining that supplies, such as food, clothing and medicine, are still not reaching their troops. As a result, they claim, some guerrilla units have had to abandon their hit-and-run war against the Sandinistas...
...government of Honduras, which claims it does not harbor contras, even though several bases are located there. The Hondurans have been placated by the decision not to allow the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa to distribute the aid. Says Adolfo Calero, head of the largest rebel group, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force: "We have very little. It is a good time for the aid to come...
Some protesters even performed student skits designed to demonstrate CIA wrongdoing in Latin America. The Nicaraguan Affinity Group sponsored a skit which portrayed CIA agents as trenchcoated communist killers who accuse and kill an innocent Nicaraguan school teacher...
...moment, the Sandinista army seems to have the upper hand in its four-year-old war against the U.S.-backed opposition forces known as the contras. "When we are attacked, we have to respond with fire," declares Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra (see box). The main insurgent group, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), declared earlier this year that it had infiltrated 14,000 of its guerrillas into Nicaragua from Honduras and positioned an additional 3,000 along the border. Last week the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry charged that the border forces were poised to invade Nicaragua with the support...