Word: sandinistas
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...gain perspective on Central America, the tour members conferred with Mexico City Bureau Chief James Willwerth, whose responsibilities extend to the entire isthmus. They also met with representatives of Central America's rebel movements: an anti-Sandinista leader from Nicaragua, a leftist opposition spokesman from Guatemala, and a dedicated, intelligent advocate for the Salvadoran insurgents, Rubén Zamora. While in Panama, the party was briefed by Lieut. General Wallace H. Nutting, head of the U.S. Southern Command. A visit to the Canal was especially meaningful for one Newstour participant, Veteran Negotiator Sol Linowitz, who helped accomplish the return...
Borge is a leader of the Sandinista movement which gained control of the Nicaraguan government in 1979 after deposing U.S. backed Anastasio Somoza. He first took part in guerilla activities in 1958, and spent nine months in prison, in 1977 and 1978. Since the revolution, Borge has played a major role in the Socialist government...
Although the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua [April 4] deserves to be punished for its support of leftist guerrilla activity in El Salvador, the people of Nicaragua should not be victimized by another civil war. The U.S. and the anti-Sandinista military forces operating out of Honduras are callously disregarding the innocent Nicaraguans. Our action may sooner or later provoke the direct involvement of Cuban forces. Donald H. Monroe Jr. Elmira...
...naive way of looking at reality. The ruling junta was Marxist from the start, he claims, and is using perceived U.S. bellicosity as an excuse for authoritarian rule. "They had no intention of doing things any differently," Cardenal argues. The ambiguity of American policy though, has given Sandinista actions legitimacy in the eyes of many third parties...
...WHILE Cardenal's arguments raise serious questions about the viability of the Sandinista regime, counterrevolution is not necessary--yet. Overthrowing the Sandinistas must be seen as a policy of last resort, to be contemplated only after all other means of change have been attempted. For despite the authoritarian nature of the regime, it is a ten-fold improvement over Somoza and Co.: great strides have been made in education and literacy and torture is no longer a fact of life...