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	Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Violeta Barrios de Chamorro , 1929-, president of Nicaragua (1990-97). Widow of martyred newspaper editor Joaquim Chamorro, she briefly joined the ruling Sandinista junta following the 1979 revolution. Opposed to the direction of the revolution, she resigned and converted the Chamorro family... Read more
	Sandinistas Sandinistas members of a left-wing Nicaraguan political party, the Sandinist National Liberation Front (FSLN). The group, named for Augusto Cesar Sandino , a former insurgent leader, was formed in 1962 to oppose the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle . In 1979 the Sandinistas launched an... Read more
	Anastasio Somoza Anastasio Somoza , 1896-1956, president of Nicaragua (1937-47, 1950-56). After the end (1933) of U.S. military intervention in Nicaragua, he rose to power as head of the national guard. Though himself a member of the Liberal party, he engineered (1936) a successful coup against the incumbent Liberal... Read more
	Daniel Ortega Saavedra Daniel Ortega Saavedra , 1945-, president of Nicaragua (1979-90, 2007-). As a university student, he joined (1963) the clandestine Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN; see Sandinistas ), a Marxist guerrilla coalition that opposed the Somoza dictatorship. In 1967, he was arrested and spent... Read more
	Augusto Cesar Sandino Augusto César Sandino , 1895-1934, Nicaraguan revolutionary general. A farmer and a mining engineer, he joined the liberal revolution (1926) against the conservative government headed by Adolfo Díaz and Emiliano Chamorro. He protested against the new U.S. intervention in Nicaragua in... Read more
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	Relations with Nicaragua NICARAGUA, RELATIONS WITH NICARAGUA, RELATIONS WITH. Nicaragua's 1838 declaration of independence from the United Provinces of Central America was originally of little interest to U.S. officials. Yet by the late 1840s, growing interest in building a transoceanic canal across Central America... Read more
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	LEGACY OF NICARAGUA WAR HITS HOME Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) MATAGALPA, Nicaragua - After a life devoted to killing Sandinistas, Commander...determine whether Nicaragua can live with itself...thousand troops inside Nicaragua. Some combat leaders still in the field are their relatives...heirs of ...
	The Killing Field of the Middle East Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...left amid Lebanon's ruins. There is even...are beyond one's rational control...are at each other's throats in Northern...contras are seeking in Nicaragua. But do we know why...Lebanon? How can the killing of thousands of innocent...country ...
	Rebels Still Seeking a Win; Return to Nicaragua Has Limited Impact Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...success anywhere in Nicaragua, U.S. and western military...when the region's five presidents signed...rhythm of war in Nicaragua. Missile-firing...helicopter Aug. 28, killing at least six soldiers...officer killed in the ...
	From sylvan Tenafly to the killing fields Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) ...sylvan Tenafly to the killing fields -- Students see horrors...reminders of Cambodia's past political struggles...rehabilitated victims in Nicaragua and, more recently...half of Cambodia's 22 provinces, are...some of the ...
	Turn south for the killing fields. (the world's wars) Magazine article from: The Economist (US) ...contributed mightily to the 17m killings in wars since 1945, 4m...1958, though last year's death toll was three times...prompted by last August's Central American peace...oldest of Central America's three insurgencies, but...launched a large offensive. ...
	The African killing fields; you heard all about the Ethiopian famine. Here's... Magazine article from: The Washington Monthly ...the Ethiopian famine. Here's the story that President Reagan...communists were doing in Angola or Nicaragua. But while other administration...thousands from their families and killing tens of thousands through deliberate...Missionwerk. Woldeselassie's ...
	The Trauma in Nicaragua Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...like the contras in Nicaragua. Both killed civilians...morally repulsive in killing children-the Soviets...laying mines in fields where children play...many friends of Nicaragua who came to Washington...humanitarian aid to Nicaragua, then it ...
	Beta Sweeps Ashore in Nicaragua, Weakens News Wire article from: AP Online ...said the country's disaster response...rice, corn and bean fields. High waters also...helicopters at the U.S. air base at Palmerola...about 125 miles off Nicaragua's coast, officials...in Jamaica before killing 21 in ...
	Hurricane Beta Roars Onto Nicaragua Coast News Wire article from: AP Online ...said the country's disaster response...rice, corn and bean fields. High waters also...helicopters at the U.S. air base at Palmerola...about 125 miles off Nicaragua's coast, officials...in Jamaica before killing 21 in ...
	Mystery disease jumps border from Nicaragua to Honduras.(Originated from... Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service ...the disease is not killing at a high rate...Emory University's Rollins School of...the countryside in Nicaragua, a nation of four...discovered it was borne by field mice carrying a variant...time,'' the CDC's Skinner said...whatever is going ...