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...Republicans warned that the action would relieve part of the pressure on Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega which they contend has forced him into recent concessions. The aid cut-off would allow Managua to slip backwards into renewed repression, the president's congressional supporters charged...
...vote this package down, you'd better be prepared to bear the consequences," Michel said. "And who among you is smart enough to predict the path on which Daniel Ortega will take...
Also like Gorbachev, Ortega has found that his triumphs abroad can be offset by pressures back home. In Managua, it did not escape notice that Ortega had forsaken once immutable Sandinista positions, most notably a pledge that they would never negotiate with the contras, whom they refer to as U.S. puppets. After Ortega announced the talks, La Prensa's headline read SANDINISTAS SURRENDER. That theme was echoed in the streets and at the markets. "We have been going backward ever since the Sandinistas came to power," said Rosario Arroliga Quintanilla as she shooed flies from the filets of pork displayed...
...that some members of the nine-member Sandinista directorate feel the same way. Since the five Central American Presidents signed Arias' peace pact last August, every conciliatory gesture made by Ortega in the international arena has been followed quickly by a harsh gesture at home that reminds the internal opposition not to push the limits of reform too fast. And each time the boot came down, rumors flew that the moderate and hard-line comandantes were in deep disagreement. Last week brought new evidence of strains. As Ortega decreed an end to the state of emergency, five more opposition members...
...arrests were intended as a warning shot over Ortega's head, they apparently worked. The note of compromise that Ortega struck in San Jose two weeks ago while meeting with the peace plan signatories quickly evaporated when he returned home. During a visit last week to Ciudad Dario, a town north of Managua, he warned that if contra aid was approved, the Nicaraguan government would gain a "free hand to take necessary measures to defend the sovereignty, self-determination and independence of our country." The implication was that even a single additional cent of aid would provoke the Sandinistas...