Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The outburst was steeped in the emotion of the moment, but it seemed a cry from the heart of a confused and unhappy country, where the promise of the revolution is depreciating as rapidly as Nicaragua's plummeting currency. Whether the country has been let down by the revolution or...
In a country where independent opinion polls have been banned since 1981, any estimates of how many Nicaraguans still support the government are suspect. Yet there is growing evidence that the revolution is down to the hard core of its constituency and still losing friends. "The Sandinistas came to power...
Those who still believe in the slogans see their faith tested daily. By every economic measure imaginable, the country has become considerably poorer since 1979. The purchasing power of the average person with a job has declined to less than 20% of what it was in 1980. Food and fuel...
Thus Nicaraguans continue to kill one another, one side getting guns from Moscow, the other side from Washington. Meanwhile, the armored knights of the revolution continue to clank noisily in the halls of power, shouting anti-U.S. epithets. Only last month Tomas Borge, the powerful Interior Minister, told a...
Daniel Ortega Saavedra had one of the busiest weeks of his life last week. He spent the first few days in Moscow, attending the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution and meeting with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Then, as Ortega was flying home, his wife Rosario Murillo...