When Sandinista militants barricaded the streets of Managua last summer, setting tires ablaze and forcing commerce and transport to halt, Antonio Lacayo summoned the top Sandinista leadership to an emergency meeting.

Lacayo, President Violeta Chamorro's son-in-law and top minister, fixed former president Daniel Ortega in his owlish gaze and made him an offer.

"What do you want?" he said. "Do the Sandinistas want to take over the government? If you want the keys to Dona Violeta's office I can get them for you in 15 minutes."

Ortega declined. But in the negotiations that ensued, he was able ...

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