Word: nicaraguan
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Hard times are forcing some people to turn their back on the American Dream. In El Monte, Calif., Julio Toruno, the son of a Nicaraguan immigrant who prospered in Southern California after World War II, watched the revenues from his print shop nose-dive 20% last year. "I don't have the opportunities my father had," he says. Strapped by high housing costs, steep taxes and a declining income, Toruno and his wife recently bought land in Nicaragua and plan to move there in the spring...
...government's star witness in the Miami trial of Panama's General Manuel Noriega, who is charged with drug trafficking and money laundering. But the prosecution's plans were turned upside down last week when Lehder, 42, claimed that the cartel gave $10 million to the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan contras...
Fiers believes that we should ignore the Iran-Contra scandal because "the Nicaraguan policy, including the support to the contras, was fully successful." But Violeta Chamorro's eventual democratic election to the presidency of Nicaragua does not justify illegal support for guerrilla revolutionaries...
...relations aspect of intelligence on Central America grew distinctly more noticeable after Gates became deputy director of the CIA, according to a September 1982 House intelligence committee report. The study cited a briefing on outside military aid to the Salvadoran guerrillas and a misleading CIA study on repression of Nicaraguan Indians as products whose main purpose seemed to be to "mobilize support for policy" rather than to inform...
...well. According to a former senior estimates officer for Latin America, David MacMichael, the CIA in late 1982 issued a classified report concluding that Marxist rebels in El Salvador depended largely on Sandinista arms. One of the few pieces of hard evidence cited was the fact that a Nicaraguan customs officer had allowed an arms-carrying Volkswagen to cross into Honduras. The report, says MacMichael, whose CIA contract was not renewed in 1983, was "a laughable document...