Word: ortega
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...held a press conference to display a cache of weapons, including 24 surface- to-air missiles, found in the wreckage of a twin-engine Cessna that had crashed some 70 miles east of San Salvador. The plane almost certainly took off from Nicaragua, bolstering Cristiani's conviction that Ortega's Sandinista government was supplying arms to the F.M.L.N. despite a personal promise to Cristiani last August not to do so. Cristiani suspended diplomatic relations with Nicaragua and refused to attend a summit of Central American Presidents scheduled for this weekend unless it was moved from Managua...
Although SA-7s can be obtained in arms bazaars around the world, there was little doubt that the weapons were shipped from Nicaragua. Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez firmly backed Cristiani in blaming Ortega, who did not even bother to deny the charge. Instead, Ortega noted the many flights that originated from San Salvador's Ilopango airport to ferry weapons to the contras fighting his government. "So what's the scandal?" he asked...
...nature of these shipments or how they have changed over time. Some Washington officials believe Managua's military aid to the F.M.L.N. was fairly modest from the early 1980s until mid-1988, when plans were first laid for the current offensive and arms shipments were cranked up. If Ortega is indeed the purveyor of SA-7s to the F.M.L.N., why did he choose to send them now? One plausible hypothesis assumes that a demand for the rockets was created by the current rebel offensive. Another is that both Ortega and Castro are rushing to help the F.M.L.N. before Gorbachev pressures...
...originally envisioned as an organization devoted to championing the democratic vision of some of the region's leaders (President Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica and former Argentine President Raul Alfonsin), was in fact one devoted to spreading the propaganda of its Marxist ideologues, Fidel Castro and Daniel Ortega...
COCA members certainly did not respond with public outrage and denounce Ortega's recent decision to halt the year-long ceasefire in Nicaragua, an act which drew widespread condemnation from the democratic leaders of this hemisphere. And I doubt that COCA members will make any noise if Ortega, as he has done in the past, intimidates the currently united democratic opposition and subverts the electoral process in order to keep himself in power...