Word: sandinistas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...convicted drug smuggler and dea informant named Barry Seal was involved in something fishy at the airport in Mena, a heavily wooded town 130 miles west of Little Rock. In 1984 Seal played a part in Oliver North's campaign to prove that the Sandinista government was in league with Colombia's Medellin cocaine cartel. In exchange for a reduced sentence on drug-smuggling charges, Seal flew his C-123 transport plane to Managua and picked up 750 kilos of cocaine from a high-ranking Sandinista official, recording the transaction with hidden cameras...
Salvadorans need look no further than Nicaragua. The 1990 election of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was greeted with widespread relief for ending nearly 11 years of incompetent rule by the Sandinista National Liberation Front and almost a decade of warfare with the U.S.-backed contras. Chamorro's government moved quickly to end the fighting and rekindle relations with...
...transition has had only mixed success. American aid is again flowing, but the country has a long way to go toward reconciliation. Discharged troops from the Sandinista army and the contras roam the country robbing civilians to feed themselves. The Sandinistas have caused trouble ; whenever they can, organizing public strikes and threatening violence and disorder in the streets. Chamorro has shown an unhealthy tendency to concentrate power among her inner circle of friends and relatives...
VIOLETA BARRIOS DE CHAMORRO may be President of Nicaragua, but Daniel Ortega's defeated Marxist party still controls the Sandinista Popular Army. Now a group of prominent Nicaraguans calling themselves the "Civilist Movement" are working quietly to remove this Sword of Damocles by abolishing the army altogether. Its peace-keeping functions would be turned over to the national police force, which is less political. The Civilist Movement wants to offer citizens a referendum on the issue, which war-weary citizens would be likely to approve in an honest election. After all, neighboring Costa Rica has got by without an army...
This month, Chamorro vetoed legislation intended to roll back the giveaway, prompting her own coalition to accuse her of betraying voters. The U.S. has volunteered to pay to recover weapons from Sandinista and ex-contra civilians, a policy Managua does not favor because it fears former Sandinistas will pocket the cash and get other guns, possibly from the army...