Word: ortega
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...into silence, they have been known to troop dutifully to Dona Violeta's comfortable four-bedroom house across from a parklet in Managua to talk things over. Chamorro knows her enemy and has not the slightest hesitation about addressing the commander of the revolution and President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega Saavedra, like a naughty schoolboy -- or worse. The last time Ortega visited her home, he noticed that a nine-year-old picture of him with members of Nicaragua's first postrevolutionary government, including Dona Violeta, was gone. Pointing to the wall, he teased her, saying, "Something's missing...
...late Dona Violeta's name is heard more and more often as a possible , presidential candidate to oppose Ortega in next February's national elections. While she has repeatedly denied any such ambitions, a gleeful light fires up her eyes when the subject of challenging Ortega comes up. And she has reason to be optimistic. A recent survey concluded that if the election were held tomorrow, the Sandinistas would lose to the opposition. When Ortega is pitted against Chamorro by name, the polls show her a slight favorite...
...Good morning, comrade," she fired back, "Don't you dare call me that. That is a word they use." If her secretary fouls up, Violeta joshingly threatens her with the fate that befell Rosario Murillo, who for eleven years was Pedro Joaquin Chamorro's executive assistant: she married Daniel Ortega...
...more sprinkles fell on Baker's parade when five Central American Presidents agreed to a plan that would disband the anti-Sandinista contras now holed up in Honduras in exchange for new guarantees of democracy by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Though Baker had met with the Foreign Ministers of Honduras and Costa Rica only a week before, the State Department was caught flat-footed. Spokesman Charles Redman could only declare, "We weren't at the meeting. We'd like to find out more about...
Washington greeted the news as the inevitable result of Managua's social and military policies, but hinted it might be willing to negotiate with Ortega at a future date. Opposition leaders, for their part, were disappointed by the government's failure to address political issues that would guarantee democratic reforms. The Sandinistas, Insisting that their adoption of traditional economics implied no shift from revolutionary politics, are betting that their harsh measures can bring long-term economic viability to their regime...