Word: sandinistan
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...group is now circulating a petition demanding the release of Gustavo Sequeira, assistant dean of the Medical School of Nicaragua, who acted as a four guide last summer for three Harvard medical students. Sequeira was kidnapped in January by the U.S.-booked contras currently fighting the Sandinistan government, Ronan said...
...lined up and shot in a San Salvadoran suburb early morning. Administration officials can dispute these accounts as propaganda supporting the rebels who have little to gain from under counting civilians killed. And they can voice their doubts about the Salvadoran left, especially since the dream of freedom in Sandinistan Nicaraugua seems less than realized. Yet we all must wonder, and ask, if the perspective our government wishes to eschew--that of a popular movement fighting for national liberation from their oppressive masters--is not, in fact, closest to the truth...
Simultaneously, the IMF has not hesitated to use its resources in the political sphere. In June 1979, the IMF granted a $34 million loan to Anastasio Somoza's government in Nicaragua to aid his resistence to Sandinistan insurgents. The U.S. voted in favor of the loan. Somoza fled Nicaragua seven weeks later, looting the treasury as he left. At last report the IMF was trying to collect the loan--from the Sandinista government...
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