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Many news reports created the impression that the Nicaraguan government had no more than the usual incumbent advantage. The resources of the two candidates seemed roughly equal, especially considering the U.S. government's $4 million donation to Chamarro's National Opposition Union (UNO) coalition...
...funds translated into only about $2 million for UNO, and $2 million in taxes for the Sandinistas. Thus the Sandinistas themselves benefitted from UNO's U.S. backing. And this irony provides only an inkling of their unfair advantages...
...their political ambitions. (In the U.S., government resources cannot be used for partisan campaigns.) Ortega used army trucks to transport people to pro-government rallies, and government workers painted campaign signs and distributed campaign literature, according to the Organization of American States (OAS). State television and radio broadcast anti-UNO propaganda regularly...
COCA members said that they wanted the U.S. to discontinue aid to the contras and the trade embargo, and to let go of its foothold in UNO, the coalition of 14 parties that helped spring Chamorro to victory...
...from the Justice Department this time -- took him to jail. After landing at 2:45 a.m., the deposed dictator was sped to a Miami federal courthouse. There he was posed in a T shirt for a humiliating mug shot, then stashed in a windowless basement cell. Panama's numero uno had become federal prisoner...