Word: sandinistas
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...Nicaraguan government continued to debate an amnesty for political prisoners, but its contours remained vague. The Sandinistas have resisted a large-scale release of prisoners almost as vigorously as they have denounced contra talks. Last week they hinted that many of Nicaragua's estimated 4,500 political prisoners might be set free on or around Nov. 5. Ortega warned last month, however, that no one guilty of "atrocities" would be freed. At the time, he said the amnesty could apply to ex-guardsmen who were not guilty of "major crimes." Some 2,500 Sandinista supporters last week staged a rally...
Instead, Ortega said Miranda was "reached by and fell in love with the CIA" in the United States when he accompanied Nicaragua's first lady, Rosario Murillo, to California on September 5 to visit a demonstrator injured while protesting U.S. aid to the anti-Sandinista rebels, called Contras...
...fragile peace process and augments Arias' moral authority as an arbiter of peace to wrest new concessions from the various parties to the plan. At the same time, it further impedes the Reagan Administration's attempts to secure $270 million in new aid for the contra rebels fighting the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Concedes an Administration official: "This complicates everything we're trying to do in Central America...
...Sandinista government's track record on such reforms does not justify excessive confidence in its sincerity. This is hardly the unambiguously legitimate government that the majority would have us believe. Since the political structure in Nicaragua makes it impossible to determine whether the majority of Nicaraguans consider it legitimate (polling in Nicaragua is prohibited), we can only judge it on its past actions. Would a truly legitimate government need to censor the press, force all opposition candidates out of its "free" presidential elections, and murder, torture, and jail political dissenters? Opposition leaders, such as Edgar Chamorro, Arturo Cruz, Maria Aristides...
Unfortunately the Reagan Administration is not working toward peace. It continues to pursue a shortsighted and ideologial foreign policy of refusing to accept the Sandinista regime. Even as peace is being discussed the Reagan Administration is pressuring Congress to approve more military aid for the contras. One can only be hopeful that the Nobel will give Arias credibility in the halls of Washington, D.C. Immediately after winning the peace prize the Costa Rican leader asked Congress not to approve any more aid for the contras. House Speaker Jim Wright said that Arias' Nobel spelled doom for contra aid in Congress...