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...very important calling card right now for Costa Ricans," who in the past decade have seen at least two former Presidents investigated (but so far not charged) in major financial-kickback cases. Still, he says, "the generational change she represents is the most significant." Being the first Tica President is definitely important - but taking Costa Rica back to the future will matter even more...
...estimated $150 million in a vain effort to make voters forget the past shortcomings of the Social Christians and concentrate on the future. The result: not only did Lusinchi win a projected 57% of the 7.7 million votes cast, vs. 34.5% for Caldera, but Actión Democrática also gained comfortable majorities in both houses of Venezuela's 249-member Congress...
Only a few months ago the early successes of the spring offensive launched by the U.S.-backed commando army of the Fuerza Democrática Nicaraguense (F.D.N.) seemed to spell serious trouble for the Marxist-led Sandinista government in Nicaragua. The counterrevolutionaries, or contras, had managed by April to establish advance positions only 70 miles from the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. As a result, some officials in the Reagan Administration were predicting that the contras would have one-third of Nicaragua under their control by the end of the year, thereby testing the Sandinista government's ability to survive...
...occasion had an artificially mysterious air about it. Two weeks ago, telephone calls were placed to journalists from New York City to Caracas urging them to dial a Miami number for information about an upcoming meeting on U.S. soil of the Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense (F.D.N.), a coalition of Nicaraguan exile groups that are opposed to the leftist Sandinista regime in Managua. When leaders of the F.D.N. showed up at a Fort Lauderdale resort hotel last week, the conclave turned out to be about as clandestine as a charity clambake. The real purpose of the get-together...
...York City. The son of poor Spanish immigrants, Betancourt was a law student of 20 when he led the first of the antigovernment rebellions that would cause him to be imprisoned or exiled intermittently over much of his life. Having launched his Acción Democrática party in 1941, he joined a successful military coup four years later and, at 37, was appointed President. After three years of sweeping reforms-including establishment of the fifty-fifty formula that gave the government half of foreign oil companies' profits-he was toppled and forced again into exile. Returning...