Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sandinista negotiators arrived in San Jose late Wednesday, led by Nicaraguan Deputy Foreign Minister Victor Hugo Tinoco. He said his team came to Costa Rica to begin immediate negotiations with the Contras, although the talks were set for next Thursday...
Those members will, in turn, be heavily influenced by whether Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega lives up to his weekend promises immediately to restore civil liberties and engage the Contras in direct cease-fire talks, Coelho added...
...defense: ignorance. The Vice President has insisted that although he supported the arms sales, it was only in late 1986, after the story had broken publicly, that he learned they were little more than a sordid attempt to trade for hostages, and that profits were diverted to help the Nicaraguan contras. Bush was left relatively unscarred by both the Tower commission and the reports of the congressional committees, which portrayed him as a bit player. It was not a heroic image for the Vice President, but it provided a degree of political safety...
...efforts, Arias was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But as he went to Stockholm to accept it in mid-December, he received the unsettling news that Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra had announced plans for a large military buildup. Arias denounced the move as a violation of the Guatemala accord. At about the same time, U.S. congressional leaders approved a compromise measure to renew nonmilitary aid to the contras through February. The contras, meanwhile, launched what they called their biggest offensive of the war. All in all, Arias' prizewinning peace plan was starting to look shaky...
...impasse," said Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Nicaragua, who serves as a mediator between the belligerent parties. The two sides agreed to a two-day Christmas truce, but Sandinistas accused the contras of numerous violations. The rebels denied the charges. In Managua, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra angrily blamed the U.S. for sabotaging the talks by aiding the contra offensive...