Word: somozaism
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...Faculty Committee on Human Rights was not his first. Born in Panama, the 49-year-old McGinn has worked for years on education throughout Latin America. In 1978, on a literacy project for the Agency for International Development, he visited Nicaragua and witnessed the last days of the Somoza regime...
...relieved of his command on the southern front and replaced by Fernando ("El Negro") Chamorro Rapoccioli, a military officer aligned with the ARDE. Pastora had opposed the merger plan on the ground that the F.D.N. was led by former National Guard officers who had supported deposed Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Pastora has vowed to continue his war against the Sandinistas with his own faction, the Sandino Revolutionary Front...
...competed to build the tallest human pyramid, and teen-agers danced to recorded calypso music. Children indulged themselves in cotton candy. In a carnival-like atmosphere, 300,000 slogan-chanting Nicaraguans gathered in Managua last week to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the revolution that brought down Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. In his address to the crowd, Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra announced that opposition parties would be allowed to hold public rallies and to travel more freely during the campaign for the Nov. 4 elections, the country's first since the 1979 Sandinista takeover. He did not, however...
Although the Roman Catholic hierarchy supported the Sandinistas' overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979, it became disenchanted as the new leadership imposed curbs on personal freedom, including press censorship and restrictions on public assembly. More recently, the church has opposed the government's decision to draft all men over the age of 17. In addition, the Pope has been at odds with four priests who disregarded his opposition to political involvement by taking high-level positions in the Sandinista government...
...political stripes: it now houses some 16,000 refugees from El Salvador, 10,000 of them un registered. It is home to 3,500 exiles from the Sandinista regime, though just five years ago it allowed free rein to Sandinista rebels fighting to bring down Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle...