Word: nicaraguan
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Hooker said he thinks that, if left to their own devices, the Sandinistas can unite Nicaragua and "enrich our national identify" by allowing each Nicaraguan tribe economic and political autonomy...
...stanch the flow of aid that Nicaragua supplied to rebels in El Salvador. Now the objectives are diffuse: by keeping the Sandinistas off balance, the insurrection may soften them up to make political concessions. Yet concessions require serious negotiations and in January, Washington suspended the talks that U.S. and Nicaraguan officials had been having in Mexico since last June. The State Department is nevertheless still hopeful about persuading Congress to subsidize the contras. "Motley's testimony was only our first shot," said one official. "We have not yet begun to mount our offensive...
...social ills, thus providing the opening wedge for liberation theology. In the '70s, as armed insurrection and military dictatorship spread across Latin America, liberation theology took on a more explicitly political dimension. The radical fringe of liberation theology eventually seemed to find its model of change in the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution. Priests and Catholic laymen united with the Marxist-Leninist Sandinistas to overthrow Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. In the ensuing euphoria of the Sandinista triumph, the Rev. Paul Schmitz, a U.S. priest who is now a bishop in Nicaragua, declared that the country "is a laboratory for all of Latin...
Maybe, but the Reagan policy is also in trouble. Congress, acting out of moral qualms about what many of its leaders see as an effort to topple the Nicaraguan government, cut off additional U.S. funding for the contras last June. Though the contras have managed to continue their campaign, it seems most unlikely that they can fell the Sandinistas even if American financing is resumed. And if the Sandinistas consolidate their power despite the contras, what then? Short of outright American military intervention, U.S. officials see only bleak alternatives. One is to accept the Marxist government, and Washington...
...Salvador, U.S. hopes are pinned to President Jose Napoleon Duarte. After winning in a free election last year, he moved cautiously but firmly against El Salvador's notorious death squads and opened negotiations with Nicaraguan-supported leftist rebels while continuing to wage war against them. But Duarte faces strong opposition from right-wingers who deplore both his reform plans and negotiations with the rebels; the rightists hope to win a majority in the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly in March, and some U.S. analysts think they have a chance. If Duarte falls or is rendered ineffective, prospects for defeating leftist revolution look...