Word: nicaraguan
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...Sandinista government's track record on such reforms does not justify excessive confidence in its sincerity. This is hardly the unambiguously legitimate government that the majority would have us believe. Since the political structure in Nicaragua makes it impossible to determine whether the majority of Nicaraguans consider it legitimate (polling in Nicaragua is prohibited), we can only judge it on its past actions. Would a truly legitimate government need to censor the press, force all opposition candidates out of its "free" presidential elections, and murder, torture, and jail political dissenters? Opposition leaders, such as Edgar Chamorro, Arturo Cruz, Maria Aristides...
...opposite things, as two emotional speeches demonstrated anew last week. "I make a solemn vow," Reagan promised at an Organization of American States (OAS) meeting in Washington. "As long as there is breath in this body, I will speak and work, strive and struggle for the cause of the Nicaraguan freedom fighters." Specifically, Reagan pledged, he will fight for $270 million in renewed military and humanitarian aid to the contras to enable them to continue battling the Sandinista regime. The next day, in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, the Nicaraguan leader ridiculed Reagan's talk. "President Reagan...
...knew, didn't you?" Woodward asked, inquiring whether Casey was aware that funds from the sale of arms to Iran were being diverted to the Nicaraguan contras. "His head jerked up hard," Woodward writes. "He stared, and finally nodded...
Veil also gives a detailed account of the CIA's history of covert support for the Nicaraguan contras and reveals that the agency, beginning in the Carter years, gave financial aid to La Prensa, the opposition newspaper that was shut down for 15 months by the Sandinista government before reopening last week. Past charges by the Sandinistas that the paper was CIA-supported have been denied, and Publisher Violeta Chamorro last week labeled Woodward's revelation "totally false...
Prompted by Nicaraguan Contra Leader Adolfo Calero's aborted speech last week, the discussion which was held in Austin Hall centered on how to maintain an environment of free speech for both conservatives and protesters...