Word: nicaraguan
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Above all, the Nicaraguan government was intent on creating an image of firmness. On a blitz of Western Europe that was hastily added to a 13-day pilgrimage to East European capitals, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra repeatedly asserted that Nicaragua was not about to bend under the U.S. embargo. In Spain, France, Italy, Finland and Sweden, he pitched strongly to his hosts for help in filling the sizable trade vacuum ($168 million in 1984) left by U.S. sanctions...
...fascist, like Hitler, who wants to turn Nicaragua into a giant concentration camp." Gonzalez was visibly uncomfortable. While cautioning that the U.S. trade embargo could force Nicaragua "to seek aid and support from the other side," meaning the Soviet Union, Gonzalez made no promises about increasing Spanish-Nicaraguan trade...
...country's northern border had more concrete significance. The contras, short of supplies after the denial of U.S. covert aid last October, have gradually withdrawn most of their forces to Honduran base camps to await help from a network of private sources (see box). Beginning early this month, Nicaraguan infantry backed by artillery began zeroing in on the main contra camp, known as Las Vegas. Finally an estimated 1,200 Nicaraguan troops launched an unprecedented cross-border assault reaching up to four miles into Honduras. Last week smaller Sandinista units continued their cross-border raids, while Honduras deployed...
...Nicaraguan government evidently feels that its military presence close to the Honduran frontier will be enough to contain the contras. But the Sandinistas do not seem to have a strategy for the domestic disenchantment that has begun to seep even into their own ranks. In Managua's Barrio Riguero slum, a stronghold of militance during the 1979 insurrection against former Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, a Sandinista activist named Maria says she remains faithful to the revolution's principles, but "life is getting harder." The main problem: "Basic necessities cost more and more, and some items are almost impossible to find...
...reason for the shortages is the disruption caused by the three-year contra war. Another lies in government economic policies. The Sandinistas claim that 60% of the Nicaraguan economy is in private hands. That assertion, says Ramiro Gurdian, vice president of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise, is "fake. The private sector owns the means of production, but the government tells you what to do. What decision is left...