Word: tipitapa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meantime, compliance with other facets of the peace accord goes forward in fits and starts. Last week the Sandinistas released 985 political prisoners from the Tipitapa limited-security prison, 13 miles north of Managua. El Salvador has already set free 474 political prisoners as part of the mandated amnesty, and may release more soon. Unfortunately, the amnesty erases, perhaps forever, the possibility of prosecuting those who may be responsible for some of El Salvador's most shameful moments. Apart from the perpetrators of thousands of unsolved Salvadoran slayings, those who may be freed include the three men suspected of killing...
Hasenfus said in Guatemala that Nicaraguan Interior Minister Tomas Borge, who oversees the national penal system, had given him the key to his cell at Tipitapa prison, 12 miles east of Managua...
After a trial before a People's Tribunal composed of a lawyer, truck driver and laborer, Hasenfus was sentenced last month to 30 years for terrorism and other crimes. He was being held in the Tipitapa prison outside Managua when he was freed...
...Washington worked on these plans, Eugene Hasenfus awaited his fate, which may be decided as early as this week. "I don't believe we hired ourselves for patriotic reasons," he said last week in Tipitapa, a town outside Managua where he has been imprisoned. "It was done for the dollar mainly." Would he do it again? "If somebody asked me to, I'd ask him if he had all his marbles." Does he feel he is paying for the "sins" of the U.S. ? "Amen. Amen." Surprisingly, many of the Nicaraguans who lingered outside the courtroom seemed sympathetic toward the hapless...