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...prime ideological battleground, spending hundreds of millions of dollars, enduring bitter domestic debate and engaging in illegal- arms deals to face down Managua's Soviet-backed rulers. Only the end of the cold war prompted the two superpowers to bow out. Americans thought Nicaragua's problems were solved when Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was elected President in early...
...HADN'T BEEN WARNED. PRESIDENT Violeta Chamorro's ballot-box victory over the Marxist-dominated Sandinistas three years ago, celebrated as a triumph of democracy, dimmed somewhat when she retained several former adversaries in key positions while continually quarreling with her own National Opposition Union (U.N.O.) coalition. Now Madam President has added three more Sandinistas to her Cabinet and announced a new economic plan with emphasis on social issues that appeals to the Sandinistas -- plus a 20% devaluation of the cordoba and a freeze on government spending. Fed up, U.N.O. officially broke with Chamorro, and marched through the streets...
Jorge Salaverry, chief adviser to the Nicaraguan Embassy, said the election of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro in February 1990 signalled popular support for democratic reforms...
Salvadorans need look no further than Nicaragua. The 1990 election of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was greeted with widespread relief for ending nearly 11 years of incompetent rule by the Sandinista National Liberation Front and almost a decade of warfare with the U.S.-backed contras. Chamorro's government moved quickly to end the fighting and rekindle relations with...
Less spectacular appearances by the Virgin have attracted streams of the faithful in locales from Central America to the Slavic steppes. In Nicaragua, President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro is a strong believer in a series of % visitations by the Madonna in the small town of Cuapa, where Mary was witnessed by a church caretaker several times from May through October of 1980. During a 1981 Mass celebrated at the spot by the Archbishop of Managua, with some 30,000 people in attendance, believers say the sun changed colors. In Hrushiw, Ukraine, tens of thousands of people gathered in 1987 after...