but not without anti-Semitism.” The official Sandinista newspaper, Barricada, ran an editorial in January 1990 in which it attributed distrust of their country by the “Yankee bureaucracy” to ...

Enrique Bolanos of the Liberal party became the third democratically elected president in Nicaragua since Ortega’s Sandinistas peacefully handed over power in 1990. “This is a new era for ...

Bermudez, in his 40s, is quick to point out that, though he was a member of Somoza`s National Guard, he did not take part in the fight against the Sandinista revolution. For the last five crucial ...

The Honduran government said Tuesday that approximately 1,500 Nicaraguan troops were engaged in a battle against anti-Sandinista rebels in southern Honduras and ordered Honduran troops into the ...

Since then, many things have changed in Nicaragua.” In recognition of how much popular support was lost by the Sandinistas' anti-Catholic attitude, a mellowed Ortega dressed in casual wear and ...

Neither Chamorro Barrios nor Roach align themselves with the armed anti- Sandinista guerrillas. Roach took his position this week ” . . . even as we also continue to criticize those aspects of U ...

A visit to Managua last month by Lt Col Oliver North, the man who organised and armed the anti-Sandinista Contra guerrillas throughout the Eighties with the obvious approval of Reagan, did more ...

Left-wing stance of Sandinista leaders results in formation of anti-Sandinista rebels, the Contras. 1980 - Somoza assassinated in Paraguay. 1982 - US-sponsored attacks by Contra rebels based in ...

The United States showed remarkable hostility toward Nicaragua’s government, through its assistance to anti-Sandinista “Contra” rebels, as well as economic sanctions and direct acts of sabotage.

The United States showed remarkable hostility toward Nicaragua’s government, through its assistance to anti-Sandinista “Contra” rebels, as well as economic sanctions and direct acts of sabotage.