Word: sandinistas
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...Rogers’s best known films is Pictures from a Revolution (1991), in which his wife retraces her travels in Nicaragua and results in the photo essay Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979. Ten years after the Sandinista Revolution, her purpose in returning to Nicaragua was to ask the subjects in her pictures “what do they remember...
...smart enough to address topics like international conflict. Hopefully, we?ll see a new generation of artists, challenged by history, rise to the task of writing music that captures the themes of the day. Bob Dylan did it with ?Masters of War.? The Clash did it with albums like ?Sandinista!? and ?Combat Rock.? The political-minded hip-hop metal band Rage Against the Machine was a lonely voice of relevance in the 90s. The new millennium may produce rock, rap and pop that?s equal to the times...
WASHINGTON: Ronald Reagan sold his Latin America policy by casting himself as Paul Revere to an imminent Sandinista invasion, but Bill Clinton faces a tougher challenge in the sedate climate of post-Cold War trade politics...
...Jose Mercury News has charged that the CIA possibly cooperated with the Nicaraguan contras to flood America's black ghettos with cocaine to get money to fund the 1980s war against the Sandinista government [DIVIDING LINE, Sept. 30]. These accusations are more than a problem affecting just black America and the CIA. Senator John Kerry's committee reported in the 1980s that the CIA, the FBI and the DEA knew of the contras' drug dealings, yet drug traffickers continued to be paid by the U.S. State Department, "in some cases after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law-enforcement...
MANAGUA: With thirty six percent of the vote counted, Conservative Arnoldo Aleman, the former mayor of Managua, is claiming victory in Nicaragua's second consecutive democratic election. Aleman predicted he would win a majority, avoid a runoff and end Sandinista Daniel Ortega's political comeback. Aleman is already making plans to form a national government, formed of all political forces in the country. Ortega is not conceding defeat, while Sandinista campaign chairman Alvaro Fiallos said that it was premature for Aleman to claim victory. The elections themselves were a morass of inefficient bureaucracy, hampered by delays in ballot delivery, tardy...