Word: ortega
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world breathed a sigh of relief when Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and President-Elect Violeta Chamorro embraced last Monday. Nicaragua's freest and fairest election ever seemed to go off smoothly, indicating that world leaders may soon be free of any entanglement with the country's civil war. President Bush even congratulated Ortega last week on "the conduct of the election and on his pledge to stand by the results...
United States intervention helped Chamorro to defeat President Daniel Ortega in the Nicaragua's first elections on February 26, said members of COCA, which has actively supported the Sandinistas and protested U.S. policy in Central America...
...last month, Chamorro restricted her forays outside Managua to weekends, supposedly for lack of funds. Her unfamiliarity with the details of issues, like Nicaragua's hyperinflation, has spawned unflattering comparisons with Ronald Reagan. Enthroned in a wheelchair because of knee surgery, Chamorro becomes testy when asked if she feels Ortega is outhustling...
...wins, many Nicaraguans doubt that the Sandinistas would willingly relinquish power to her, especially control of the 70,000-member armed forces, which is called the Sandinista People's Army and is the main guarantor of the F.S.L.N.'s power. Chamorro favors drastically reducing the army's size. If Ortega should win in a fair election, the U.S. would be under pressure to normalize relations with Managua or at the very least to lift the economic boycott imposed in 1985. For now, the Bush Administration is taking a tough stance, promising to improve relations with the Sandinistas if they...
...economy. But after spending more than $300 million in aid to the contras to dislodge the Sandinistas, Washington might find itself allocating large sums to a country run by a President who so far has demonstrated neither the vision nor the administrative skills to do her job well. Ortega's election, on the other hand, would signal that the nation's 1.75 million voters prefer the devil they know. In either case, Nicaraguans in search of a brighter future may find little reason to celebrate after the election...