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Equally important were the signals Moscow did not send. As the Soviets watched the Ortega campaign unfold, they thought the Sandinistas should steal the opposition's thunder by seconding Chamorro's promise to end the hated ! military draft, but Moscow never communicated its analysis. "We don't interfere in someone else's elections," Pavlov deadpans...
Another price paid by the Sandinistas came at the Dec. 12 convocation of the Central American Presidents in San Isidro, Costa Rica. It was there that the Sandinistas, in effect, repudiated the F.M.L.N. The declaration Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega signed at San Isidro called for the Salvadoran guerrillas to "immediately and effectively cease hostilities and join the process of dialogue." The document also expressed Ortega's support of Alfredo Cristiani's Salvadoran government as democratic, something Managua had previously never conceded. "We choked hard on that one," says a former Ortega adviser. "Of course we didn't believe...
...conceded the election in Nicaragua's presidential vote last February, Daniel Ortega promised supporters that his Sandinista party would "rule from below." Last week Nicaraguans got a taste of what that means, and President Violeta Chamorro learned that even out of office, the Sandinistas are far from powerless...
...raging inflation (1,700% last year). She also must cope with 25% unemployment and an $11 billion foreign debt. Says U.N.O. spokesman Luis Sanchez: "If we don't receive even a minimum amount ((of U.S. aid)) immediately, the situation will become catastrophic. We might as well call up Daniel Ortega and give him back the country...
...integrity of the Sandinista army, considered to be the guarantor of Nicaragua's revolutionary progress. Chamorro worked out an agreement whereby the army will not be disbanded, but her government can reduce its size and determine how it can be used. She faced down demands that Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra, Daniel's brother, keep his post as army commander...