Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nicaraguan program, which is sponsored by a private aid foundation, the Overseas Development Fund, "aims to create economic opportunity for women," he said. The money donated will buy sewing machines and other materials to help the women of Las Herramades earn money to feed their families, Marx said...
Bush favors continued federal support for the Nicaraguan rebels. He is critical of any multilateral approach, calling it a "platform for peace" without any means of achieving...
...foreclosing the prospect of relief assistance from Washington, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra declared, "The best help they can give us is to stop the ((rebel)) aggression." He accused the U.S. of encouraging the contras to take advantage of the storm to infiltrate back into Nicaragua from Honduras. In lieu of direct aid, he suggested that Americans make donations to nongovernmental agencies...
...Reagan Administration was no less stubborn. Some U.S. officials indicated that they would consider a request for aid from the Nicaraguan government -- a safe bet since they knew none would be forthcoming. Others seemed to rule out even that prospect, charging that the Sandinistas would only misuse the funds to further their campaign against the contras. As partisan politics raged, the losers were the 181,000 Nicaraguans who are now homeless...
...borders and other cultures." Farther west in Tucson, Dr. Michael Meyer, director of the Latin America Center at the University of Arizona, points out the inordinate influence of American culture. "I doubt that one American out of 10,000 would know who Sandino was," he says, referring to the Nicaraguan guerrilla leader who in the late 1920s and early 1930s defiantly resisted U.S. intervention in his country and whose name was appropriated by Nicaragua's currently reigning Sandinistas. "Yet nine out of ten Latins know who George Washington...