Word: somozaism
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...signs here point to easy moralism. Benevolent revolutionaries fighting fascism; idealistic rebels among the Sandinistas; U.S.-backed dictator pig Somoza; dreamy-eyed Western Press ready to report injustice and suffering--there's a lot it's hard to argue with. Except there's a catch. True, the filmmakers--led by director Roger Spottiswode--are sympathetic to the Left here, and with good cause. Even by the not-so-high standards of right-wing Latin American dictatorships, the government of Anastasio Somoza was a sorry lot, oozing corruption and brutality. And yet Under Fire is able to transcend a doctrinaire manifesto...
Your report on Nicaragua today gave me the impression that the Sandinistas have betrayed the goals of the revolution. Instead of demilitarizing the country and implementing democracy after ousting Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, the Sandinistas have turned the country into an armed Soviet camp...
...course, permit himself to articulate such aspiring thoughts. With his thick voice, his beefy former jock's build and his wary-passive manner, Nolte plays Price (very authentically) as a man who is all reflexes of the single-lens variety. The big picture in Nicaragua, as the Somoza regime yields to the Sandinistas in 1979, means little to Price, who is portrayed as being on assignment for TIME; he is more concerned with the succession of little moneymakers he must try to capture as they flee past his view finder. It is the business of the film lo arrange...
...Force (F.D.N.) is the largest contra faction and the biggest recipient of the funds the CIA has earmarked for the war. F.D.N. leaders say that the overwhelming majority of their followers are peasants who have become disillusioned by the Sandinista revolution and that only 3% are former members of Somoza's National Guard. But the presence of ex-guardsmen in the F.D.N.'s military command has allowed the Sandinistas A hit-and-run to paint the contras as reactionaries who only want to bring back the dictatorship. Last week, in an effort to improve its image, the F.D.N...
...smallest of the contra factions, the Nicaraguan Democratic Union, and its military wing, the Nicaraguan Revolutionary Armed Forces, are composed primarily of businessmen, labor leaders and students who originally were allied with the Sandinistas in the fight against Somoza. Like the F.D.N. and MISURA, they have been using bases in Honduras to challenge the Sandinistas' northern border...