Word: nicaraguan
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...beyond the realm of collecting secrets to intervening forcibly in the affairs of foreign states. In that area, the agency's history has often been one of blunders and worse, from Iran and Guatemala in the 1950s through the Bay of Pigs fiasco under John F. Kennedy to the Nicaraguan war that led to the Iran-contra debacle in the '80s. Some longtime intelligence watchers are wondering whether a reinvigorated paramilitary wing of the CIA could be a mixed blessing for America once again. And the military itself is not too pleased. It believes its special-ops forces are perfectly...
...room; if the New York Times ran a story about Carter with Castro, the ex-president's relationship with the Bush administration would be terminated. (Dan Quayle, in Caracas representing the first Bush administration at Perez' inauguration, was already fuming about Carter's meeting that week with Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega.) "I almost picked her up and walked her to the elevator to get her out of there in time," Pastor recalled. "And ten seconds later Castro burst into the room...
This year, 200 students from schools in Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica and the United States will descend on Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, to play the roles of legislators and diplomats...
...Colombia as part of the war on drugs. It's already clear, for example, that the Bush administration's appointee to head the State Department's Latin America desk, Otto Reich, is in trouble. Reich ran the domestic propaganda campaign for the Reagan administration's program backing the Nicaraguan contras, and was nominated with strong backing from right-wing anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Miami. A Senate Foreign Relations Committee run by anyone other than Jesse Helms may question Reich's appropriateness for the challenges of today's Latin America...
...while enthusiasts of such Reagan-era proxy warriors as the Nicaraguan contras and the Afghan mujahedeen insist that the way forward in Iraq is to increase pressure and to arm the ragtag collection of opposition organizations gathered under the banner of the Iraqi National Congress, U.S. allies in the region believe such a policy would be at best ineffective, and at worst a recipe for the sort of chaos that has literally reduced Afghanistan to rubble over the past decade. Regional stakeholders such as Saudi Arabia might be more inclined to sign off on a direct U.S. invasion to depose...