Word: ortega
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During an otherwise routine press conference, Speaker of the House Jim Wright said last week he had "received clear testimony" that the CIA helped orchestrate anti-Sandinista demonstrations in Nicaragua to provoke the government of President Daniel Ortega Saavedra. Republican Congressmen pounced, demanding that the House Ethics Committee investigate whether the Texas Democrat had violated rules barring disclosure of testimony given in closed hearings...
Reagan's chief spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, also refused to confirm or deny Wright's statements. But Fitzwater said the Texas Democrat "has always been more than willing to take the positions" of the Marxist government headed by President Daniel Ortega...
Wright said Tuesday that Congress had received "clear testimony" that the administration sought to secretly undermine the Nicaraguan peacemaking process, thus damaging long-term prospects for an accord between Ortega's ruling Sandinistas and the Contra rebels...
...peace talks of the five Central American nations. That honor went to the Oscar Arias-Sanchez and the Costa Rican government. Instead, the Reagan Administration believes that peace can be achieved only through the funding of more weapons. The peace it really looks for is an end to Ortega...
...United States had a choice to replace Ortega with either a right-wing dictator who would restore "order" back to Nicaragua or a newly-developed democratic system, it would likely choose the dictator. It did so in El Salvador...