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Nicaragua's comandantes believe the army can readily handle the military threat posed by the contras. "We expect we will have mercenaries in Nicaragua for a long time, but we have made many advances in cutting their social base," President Daniel Ortega Saavedra recently told TIME. "They are now a weakened, reduced force." The President's younger brother, General Humberto Ortega Saavedra, the Defense Minister and an increasingly visible member of the Sandinista directorate, concurs. Of last week's attack in Managua, he says, "They have moved to this kind of activity because they have no political program. But this...
...Nicaragua. The admissions that contra disruptions are taking place suggest the comandantes no longer feel intimidated either by the rebels or, for that matter, by the Reagan Administration. For years the comandantes steadfastly denied that they paid attention to Washington's every move. Now they are less bashful. President Ortega, for instance, candidly admits that he watches U.S. television newscasts daily, and has followed the Iran-contra scandal closely...
More than seven years after the Sandinistas took power in Managua, President Daniel Ortega last week unveiled a new constitution -- and then promptly curtailed many of the charter's guarantees. His reason: the simmering war between the Marxist-oriented Sandinistas and the U.S.-backed contras...
Since 1982, civil liberties in Nicaragua have been sharply curbed by a state of emergency called to meet the contra threat. The 202-article charter champions many of those suspended liberties, including freedom of speech and assembly and the right to strike. Immediately after the signing of the constitution, Ortega reimposed the state of emergency. Erick Ramirez, leader of the opposition Social Christian Party, has dismissed the document as a "tool of propaganda for foreign consumption...
...script sounded more like the ending of a three-hankie Christmas movie than the conclusion of a 74-day political ordeal, well, that's probably just what Daniel Ortega had in mind. By playing Santa Claus, the Nicaraguan President plainly hoped to score points with the American public at a moment when President Reagan's own Yuletide fortunes were looking bleak. "This is our Christmas and New Year's message to the American people from the people of Nicaragua," said Ortega. "It is a message of peace, and couldn't be more concrete." Washington's response was Bah, humbug...