Word: violeta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alternative is Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, widow of the venerated Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Cardenal, the La Prensa newspaper publisher whose assassination by the right-wing Somoza dictatorship in 1978 touched off the uprising that led to the Sandinistas' elevation to power. Since winning the nomination of the United Nicaraguan Opposition (U.N.O.) coalition last September, she has managed to improve on a thoroughly inept start. But her campaign still lacks both substance and imagination. Dona Violeta does not discuss issues. She appears. She smiles. She presses flesh. She departs. Her stump speeches are long on teary references to her late husband...
Alfredo Cesar, one of her chief strategists, promises she will stay close to home once the campaign formally opens Dec. 4. But Dona Violeta needs more than that to defeat the well-organized Ortega. U.N.O. must reach its natural constituency among those hurt most by the Sandinistas. Even the U.S. is uncertain how strongly to back her. While Ortega is one of Bush's least favorite heads of state, lavishing U.S. resources on a lost cause could succeed only in making Ortega more difficult to deal with in a second term. Still, the U.S. will spend $9 million to support...
...faced a unique prospect for a Marxist regime: the chance of winning a new term in office through open and honest balloting. President Daniel Ortega Saavedra had been nominated for re-election in a splashy party convention, and he launched a surprisingly effective grass- roots campaign, while opposition candidate Violeta Barrios de Chamorro got off to a pathetic start. Best of all, the 10,000-man army of insurgent contras, deprived of U.S. military support, was skulking in Honduras under a regional peace accord ordering them to disband in early December...
Bush and Ortega traded barbed comments from afar before the face-to-face meeting, and the president made a point of giving Nicaraguan opposition candidate Violeta Chamorro a kiss when they met. She was an invited guest at Arias' diplomatic conference, and Bush was holding a coffee for her and Panamanian political figure Guillermo Endera today to underscore his opposition to the two governments they are battling...
...Violeta Chamorro, the publisher of Managua's opposition newspaper La Prensa, has defied by word and deed the Sandinistas she once supported...