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Noriega won Washington's gratitude by allowing the U.S.-supported Nicaraguan contra rebels to train on Coiba Island, off Panama. In 1985 he made an offer to Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, then on the National Security Council staff, to assassinate Nicaraguan Sandinista leaders and carry out sabotage inside the country. All the time, though, Noriega was allegedly running arms to the Sandinistas and to leftist rebels in Colombia and El Salvador, supplying CIA information to Cuba and helping Cubans smuggle U.S. high- technology equipment through Panama to the Soviet bloc. Said Jose Blandon, a former intimate of Noriega...
Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government on Friday gave the diplomats 72 hours to leave the country and ordered the U.S. Embassy support staff cut from 320 employees...
...press conference to display a cache of weapons, including 24 surface- to-air missiles, found in the wreckage of a twin-engine Cessna that had crashed some 70 miles east of San Salvador. The plane almost certainly took off from Nicaragua, bolstering Cristiani's conviction that Ortega's Sandinista government was supplying arms to the F.M.L.N. despite a personal promise to Cristiani last August not to do so. Cristiani suspended diplomatic relations with Nicaragua and refused to attend a summit of Central American Presidents scheduled for this weekend unless it was moved from Managua...
...Sandinistas have admitted supplying the F.M.L.N. with other types of weapons in the past. But U.S. intelligence agencies have not been able to come up with hard information about the nature of these shipments or how they have changed over time. Some Washington officials believe Managua's military aid to the F.M.L.N. was fairly modest from the early 1980s until mid-1988, when plans were first laid for the current offensive and arms shipments were cranked up. If Ortega is indeed the purveyor of SA-7s to the F.M.L.N., why did he choose to send them now? One plausible hypothesis...
Andrew Bates criticized COCA for what he sees as our blind eye to human rights abuse in Nicaragua. To in any way compare polling policy in Sandinista-led Nicaragua to the genocide enacted by ARENA-led EI Salvador shows unspeakable disrespect for human rights by making all offenses equal. Bates' piece also cheapens the lives of all Central Americans by submitting to the terms of a cold-war discourse (and along the way forgetting that while Soviet aid to Nicaragua began during Carter's presidency, so did U.S. aid to contras...