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...house arrest were further relaxed to allow him the freedom to travel the country. And now that President Ortega needs opposition support for his government's agenda, Alem?n, who controls the second biggest legislative bloc in the National Assembly, is cashing in a few more chips. On April 19, Sandinista and Liberal lawmakers combined to pass a law reducing the prison term for money laundering to five years, which Alem?n conveniently will complete next December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Nicaragua's Caged Bird Sings | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...hawkish Alem?n, who speaks wistfully of the repressive days of the Somoza dictatorship (which Ortega overthrew as leader of the Sandinista insurgents), was never a typical prisoner. He has spent more of his jail sentence in a hospital bed recovering from a minor finger surgery (three months to be exact) than he spent behind bars. And now that full freedom appears to be just around the corner, he has valiantly cast aside concerns for his own health for the good of his party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Nicaragua's Caged Bird Sings | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...underlying a sometimes unwieldy body of work that includes his expressionistic paintings of steelworkers and, most recently, Saddam Hussein, has been his eloquent draftsmanship. From early sketches of train commuters in Kogarah to his first diary accounts of soldiers while making a film in Nicaragua during the Sandinista revolution, Gittoes has been interested in rendering the forces of industry and war. "I understand soldiers," he says. And his understanding has come about as much through pen, pencil and brush, as his new show of drawings at Sydney's Australian Galleries makes startlingly clear. Of his four trips to Baghdad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pop-Art History of Warfare | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

Nowhere was the scandal played as such unabashedly good news as in Nicaragua, whose Marxist-led Sandinista government hoped it would be a major blow to the chances of continued U.S. support of the contra guerrillas. President Daniel Ortega claimed the Sandinistas had known all along that the U.S. was conducting a campaign to keep antigovernment forces supplied in defiance of congressional prohibition. The Sandinistas hope the prohibition, lifted in October after Congress voted to send $100 million in U.S. aid over the next year, will be clamped back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Strong Aftershocks | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...quick way to clear up the mysteries stemming from the Administration's admission two weeks ago that up to $30 million in profits from secret shipments of U.S. arms to Iran had been diverted to support the guerrilla warfare of the U.S.-backed contras against Nicaragua's Marxist Sandinista government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pursuing the Money Connections | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

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