Word: sandinistas
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Nicaraguan President Violeta Chamorro will oust Humberto Ortega, the Sandinista army chief. The announcement drew a denunciation from Daniel Ortega, Humberto's brother, who was President of the Sandinista government that ran Nicaragua for more than a decade. "You are not the owner of Nicaragua," he told his successor. But Chamorro's action could help unfreeze $94 million...
Meanwhile, the political upheaval scares off foreign investors. The government's failure to return all the properties unjustly confiscated by the Sandinistas and to diminish Sandinista influence on policy has also put off some aid donors, most notably the U.S. During the first two years of Chamorro's term, Washington gave nearly $1 billion in grants, loans and forgiven debt. But in July the Senate voted to cut off $94 million in aid, pending the outcome of an ongoing investigation of Nicaraguan army and < intelligence ties to international terrorists. The House will soon decide whether to follow suit...
...political class with a national consciousness, no social base from which to resolve the problems." That leaves Chamorro, out of touch and over her head, fumbling to start a national dialogue. Late last week she seemed to be signaling new resolve as reports circulated that the ex- Sandinista army intelligence chief, now director of army information, was about to be dismissed...
Although the popular sentiment is to see Chamorro finish her six-year term, U.N.O. leaders may conspire to cut short her tenure. If her former allies mount a legislative challenge, Chamorro has little strength to fight back: she now commands the loyalty of only her Cabinet ministers. Yet neither Sandinista nor U.N.O. leaders are clamoring for the job. The truth is that no one wants, or knows how, to govern Nicaragua today...
More than 70 hostages were released in Nicaragua after being held by two rival ; groups for nearly a week, ending a tragicomic crisis that raised fears of a new civil war. Shortly after former anticommunist contra guerrillas freed some 38 members of a peace commission, a group of former Sandinista soldiers let go 34 politicians they had seized, including the Vice President. Both sets of captors were virtually guaranteed immunity from prosecution as well as consideration of their demands for land, loans and other...