Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they trooped to the Capitol Building for closed-door sessions with House Speaker Jim Wright. First came Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, toting a proposal for cease-fire talks between his Sandinista government and the U.S.-backed contras. After Ortega left, Secretary of State George Shultz arrived, followed by the contra leaders. Finally, Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, Nicaragua's ranking churchman, disappeared into Wright's office. An exasperated Reagan Administration, its policymaking efforts sidelined by the frenzy of congressional diplomacy, was forced like the rest of Washington to wait and see what might come of Wright's highly unusual...
...country where independent opinion polls have been banned since 1981, any estimates of how many Nicaraguans still support the government are suspect. Yet there is growing evidence that the revolution is down to the hard core of its constituency and still losing friends. "The Sandinistas came to power with the support of 80% to 90% of the population," says a Nicaraguan intellectual who was once a fervent believer. "Now they would have to scrape to come up with 40%." The draft and 1500% inflation are eroding the bedrock of support in poor neighborhoods like Villa Cuba. "They have taken...
...Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra occasionally tries to reconcile his rhetoric with the spirit of the Guatemala accord, but the message is not always clear. FORWARD WITH THE FRONT, shouts the party's official 1987 slogan from billboards and walls around Managua. HERE NO ONE SURRENDERS. The government has in fact surrendered some ground since signing the peace agreement, but the real issues at the root of the conflict have not been addressed. Nicaragua is at war with itself, as it has been before in a history as violent as the tropical storms that sweep across the isthmus...
...future concessions. These measures mark the limit. Beyond these, we would be going too far, affecting the credibility of the government with the Nicaraguan people...
...locals call him el Patron. A tough-talking, leathery native of Indiana, he came to Costa Rica in the early 1960s and carved out his own Central American Xanadu, 40 miles south of the Nicaraguan border. The 1,500-acre ranch where he raises cattle and grows oranges is the centerpiece of six properties he owns or manages. Once a week the modern-day feudal baron and his Costa Rican wife Margarita ride out on horseback to check on the 100 workers in their employ. El Patron also enjoys climbing into his blue-and-white Cessna and taking off from...