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Another major difference is stands on birth control. For the average North American feminist, contraception and abortion symbolize social emancipation. In Nicaragua, however, "You're not a real woman if you don't have children," one female Sandinist says. Because of the Roman Catholic Church's heavy influence, abortions are only legal (and gratis) when the mother's or unborn child's lives are endangered. Because the FSLN government wants to repopulate Nicaragua (which lost 30,000 people during the war), contraception is not encouraged. Nor is it discouraged--family planning counseling and devices are free to all women, regardless...
...Marxist National Sandinist Liberation Front (FSLN) government really met her raised expectations? "Well," she muses, "not cxactly. But let's say the FSLN is trying...
...fact, despite their efforts, U.S. officials even failed to keep the situation in Managua from disintegrating into the chaos that ravaged the city for about 36 hours before the Sandinist junta gained control. Soldiers rushed into and out of downtown office buildings. So hopelessly disorganized were both sides, that when a random officer of the National Guard wandered into in terim President Urcuyo's bunker seeking written permission for his son to leave the country, the President pounced upon him to serve as a liason between the government and the new junta. Within several hours, the officer managed to accomplish...
...indiscriminate killing began after gun-toting members of the Sandinist National Liberation Front (FSLN)* staged a spectacular invasion of a 1974 Christmas party honoring the U.S. ambassador. They took hostage a dozen leading businessmen and members of Somoza's government, including his Foreign Minister and ambassador to Washington. Swallowing his pride, Somoza negotiated the ministers' release, paid the guerrillas $1 million, and let them and 15 imprisoned FSLN members fly to Cuba. But then he declared martial law, which is still in force, and set out to crush the Sandinistas, who have received support, training and some arms...