Word: saavedra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Daniel Ortega Saavedra attributes such hardships to U.S. sanctions and the American-backed contra insurgency. In recent months, however, increasing numbers of Ortega's long-suffering countrymen are blaming their predicament not on outside aggression but on the Sandinistas. Says Carlos Huembes, president of a coalition of anti-Sandinista groups known as the Democratic Coordinator: "People are losing their patience, and people are losing their fear...
President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, meanwhile, pressed Nicaragua's case abroad. After a quick stop in Cuba, Ortega continued on to Europe. In Madrid, he invited Spain to join his recently proposed international commission to monitor Nicaragua's compliance with the peace plan. Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez accepted, provided that other Central American leaders approved Spain's participation. Ortega then flew to Rome, where he had a 30-minute private audience with Pope John Paul II. It was the first meeting between the two men since the Pontiff's tense visit to Nicaragua in 1983, and the welcome was decidedly chilly...
...policies. "A good lawyer," he argues, "represents clients, not causes." True, but Reichler now has a paternal interest as well in the Nicaraguans. In 1984 he and his wife adopted a Nicaraguan baby. Her name is Jessica Danielle, in honor of Reichler's good friend, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra...
...more stunning when Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra climaxed the heated session with what appeared to be a remarkable set of concessions. Ortega agreed to meet within days with leaders of the U.S.-backed contras and to open direct negotiations for a cease-fire in Nicaragua's civil war, now in its seventh year. Once the shooting stopped, Ortega said, his Marxist-oriented Sandinista government would release its political prisoners. He also promised to lift the six-year state of emergency that had allowed the Managua regime to impose its dictatorial rule. Those last-minute pledges saved the meeting...
...Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Nicaragua, who serves as a mediator between the belligerent parties. The two sides agreed to a two-day Christmas truce, but Sandinistas accused the contras of numerous violations. The rebels denied the charges. In Managua, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra angrily blamed the U.S. for sabotaging the talks by aiding the contra offensive...