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During the meetings, commissioners asked participants what they thought the city could do to improve racial and ethnic equity, what the commission could do, and what citizens themselves could do, said commission Chair Sylvia Saavedra-Keber...
...Saavedra-Keber defended these sections of the report, and said that the commission's purpose was simply to bring to the council concerns raised by its constituents...
...Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, defeated the Sandinistas and became President of Nicaragua in April 1990. Lacayo, who served as Chamorro's campaign director, immediately began shaping the new administration; according to insiders, he picked the President's Cabinet and made the controversial decision to retain Sandinista General Humberto Ortega Saavedra as head of the armed forces. Lacayo's official title is Minister of the Presidency, but some feel he might as well be called Mr. Presidency. "Dona Violeta conferred absolute power on Antonio from the beginning," says a longtime family friend. "He's running the country...
Former President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, who the morning after his defeat proclaimed, "We were born poor, and we'll be satisfied to die poor," had a last-minute change of heart. In April the President's office ordered the withdrawal of $3.6 million in U.S. currency from the Central Bank, plus the equivalent of $5 million more in Nicaraguan cordobas. Francisco Mayorga, who, as Chamorro's first Central Bank president, inherited the mess that the Sandinistas left behind, estimates that a total of $24 million was looted from the bank...
...hungry, impoverished population that deepening discomfort in the short term is a necessary evil for long-term economic recovery. The problem is that every time Chamorro asks Nicaraguans to make a sacrifice, she hands the Sandinistas a powerful issue around which to rally political support. Former President Daniel Ortega Saavedra's postelection threat last February to "rule from below" is proving effective. Last week's strike was the second by public servants since Chamorro took office and the second that ended in concessions. Chamorro is fast learning that while she holds the power to act, the Sandinistas maintain the power...