Word: sandinistas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...REAGAN Administration is like the school yard bully who thinks the rules apply to everyone but himself. Late last week the Marxist Sandinista government of Nicaragua announced plans to file suit in the International Court of Justice charging the United States "with training, supplying and directing military and paramilitary actions against the people and government of Nicaragua, resulting in extensive loss of lives and property...
Less than three months after that parley, Anaya Montes was brutally stabbed to death in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. Her Sandinista hosts at first blamed her death on a "CIA plot." Then Nicaraguan security police arrested six of Cayetano Carpio's closest adherents for the murder, and shortly afterward, the Nicaraguans announced that Cayetano Carpio had shot himself to death in Managua out of s grief at the actions of his colleagues...
Nora Astorga seemed perfectly cast as the Mata Hari of the Sandinista revolution, and she played the game of seduction and betrayal with deadly ease. First, she caught the roving eye of General Reynaldo ("the Dog") Pérez Vega, second ranking officer in Nicaragua's notorious National Guard. Then, one night in March 1978, Astorga lured the smitten general to her home. After sending his bodyguard off to buy rum, she drew Peérez into her bedroom and disarmed him. The general undoubtedly thought he was in for a special night; he was. At that moment, five...
That daring crime earned Astorga, 37, a permanent niche in the Sandinista pantheon of heroes. But it has hardly endeared her to Reagan Administration officials, who must decide in the coming weeks whether to accept the onetime terrorist as Nicaragua's new Ambassador to the U.S. At a time when relations between the two countries are close to breaking because of American support for anti-Sandinista contras, the nomination of Astorga seemed to take Washington by surprise and struck many as a direct challenge to the White House. Said a U.S. State Department representative: "Nicaragua took a real chance...
Astorga is not as odd a choice for ambassador as she might seem. An attorney, she rose rapidly in the Sandinista junta and worked for a time bringing former Somozista National Guardsmen to justice. Since 1983, she has held the post of Deputy Foreign Minister. Her office adjoins that of Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, and she is thought to have an insider's view of diplomatic moves in Washington and Managua. But Astorga has one qualification that may outweigh all others. She has proved she is totally dedicated to the Sandinista regime and, as such...