Word: somozaism
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...which underscores the incredibly ambitious task facing the Arias Peace Plan. Despite all the lofty rhetoric that prevailed in the House chamber this week, the chances of bringing peace and democracy to Nicaragua, a country that has never known either, remain slim. Forty years of Somoza rule and another eight of a communist regime have left the country with precious little democratic institutions and heritage...
...plummeting currency. Whether the country has been let down by the revolution or, as some would argue, the revolution has been let down by the country, Nicaragua today seems to be a betrayal of all the earnest vows swapped in the sticky July heat of 1979 when Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle was finally toppled...
...possible amnesty for former national guardsmen. We have stuck firmly to the position that the amnesty does not cover Somoza's guardsmen. They are not covered because they committed notorious crimes...
Chamorro has long since taken her measure of the Sandinistas. For eight months after the 1979 overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, she sat on the ruling junta with Ortega before resigning in anger over the new government's leftward march. Still, Chamorro has not lost her sense of humor. When Ortega visited her house, he asked why pictures of her husband with leaders of the revolution had disappeared. "I told him that, frankly, looking at you ((Sandinistas)) gave me a headache," she said. If all goes according to plan, the first edition of the reborn La Prensa will appear...
...jitters that an end to hostilities in Nicaragua might send a tidal wave of contra refugees crashing across the border. Costa Rican officials believe that in the event of peace, the peasant soldiers in their country would return to Nicaragua, with only the former National Guardsmen of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle and upper-class Nicaraguans choosing to remain abroad. Honduran officials are less sanguine. As it is, they must cope with some 150,000 Nicaraguan refugees. They fear that most of the roughly 12,000 contras would want to set up shop in Honduras, perhaps even refusing to be disarmed...