Word: nicaraguan
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...presence of Israeli arms in the region is not new. During the Nicaraguan civil war that ended with the overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza by Sandinista rebels in 1979, both sides fought with Israeli guns. In the 1976 border skirmish between Honduras and El Salvador, the two countries used Israeli infantry weapons. Since 1976, Israel has become a leading supplier to Guatemala, Honduras and to a lesser extent Costa Rica...
Inevitably, the Nicaraguan government and others have charged that Israel is merely serving as Washington's proxy in Central America. U.S. officials deny this, though some acknowledge that Israel occasionally makes life easier for them by supplying arms to regimes that the Reagan Administration feels it cannot support so strongly or so openly. Says an American expert based in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa: "Israel operates without the restrictions imposed on us in this part of the world. It doesn't have to explore the abuse of human rights. It has arms to sell, and the governments...
...blazing heat for an airport welcoming ceremony, Sandinista junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra delivered a 25-minute greeting, in which he blasted U.S. foreign policy and warned that "the footsteps of interventionist boots echo threateningly in the White House and the Pentagon." He told the Pope that the Nicaraguan people were "martyred and crucified every day, and we demand solidarity with right on our side." Ortega also went out of his way to tell the Pope that "Christian patriots and revolutionaries are an integral part of the popular Sandinista revolution." In response the Pontiff noted that he also would...
...airport ceremony forced John Paul to deal head-on with the nettlesome issue of Nicaraguan priests who hold government posts in defiance of his wishes. Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, a Maryknoll priest, was conveniently out of the country, attending a meeting of the nonaligned nations in New Delhi, when the Pope arrived. But Minister of Culture Ernesto Cardenal Martinez, a priest, was in the official receiving line along with other government ministers. He was wearing his typical rustic white cotton shirt, baggy blue work pants and a black beret. As the Pontiff approached, Cardenal whipped off his beret...
...sermon to 500,000 in Managua's vast Plaza 19 de Julio, the Pope left little doubt about where he stood in the church-state dispute. As a poster gallery of Nicaraguan revolutionary heroes kept silent watch, John Paul exhorted priests to obey their bishops and to preserve the unity of the church. It was a clear show of support for Archbishop Obando y Bravo. In tones that must have echoed strangely from the same platform Fidel Castro had once used to praise the Sandinistas, the Pope condemned the "popular church," a grassroots movement in Nicaragua committed to revolution...