Word: sandinistas
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...Marxist Sandinista government in Nicaragua--a "cancer that has to be excised" and "an outlaw regime" to Reagan--and the reactionary militarist regime of General Victoriano Huerta in Mexico--a "government of butchers" to Wilson--represented to both presidents, respectively, ideologies they spent their lives opposing...
Reagan is making the same mistakes today in Nicaragua. He is enabling a faltering, repressive Sandinista regime to maintain its hold on the people by allowing it to wrap itself in the Nicaraguan flag as a band of Yankee-supported brigands invade its turf...
...incursion spoke for itself. There had been talk of a bipartisan compromise that would temper the contra aid with a requirement that the Administration renew bilateral talks with the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. At midweek, however, Reagan signed a letter firmly stating, "Conditioning our aid to the Nicaraguan resistance on the initiation of direct bilateral talks, without first requiring that the Sandinistas talk to their own internal opposition, would seriously undercut our friends in the region and our foreign policy worldwide...
...most of the week, Nicaraguan officials denied that Sandinista troops had crossed the border. In Managua, Joaquin Cuadra Lacayo, the army Chief of Staff, told reporters, "In the last several weeks we have mobilized many thousands of men to the border. But it is absolutely false that Nicaraguan troops have violated Honduran territory." But the Sandinistas undercut their own denials later. At a press conference on Friday, Ortega sought to justify but not deny the raid. "Honduras lost control of its sovereignty by having the mercenary forces there," he said, referring to the contras. "The border area is converted into...
Uncharacteristically, the Nicaraguan government also admitted that the Popular Sandinista Army had losses. "The E.P.S. suffered 156 casualties, among them 40 dead, 116 wounded," read its communique. The contras put the Sandinista death toll at 200 and their...