Knee Deep in the Big Muddy at Year's End
2010 Diciembre Nicaragua
Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary-General José Miguel Insulza described the geography of the Costa Rica-Nicaragua controversy as follows:...

Maktub?
2010 Noviembre Nicaragua
Roberto Rivas—who still illegally occupies the presidency of the Supreme Electoral Council months after his term ended—announced on October 28 that the...

On Red Alert
2010 Octubre Nicaragua
The intensity and persistence of the rains that have fallen almost daily since mid-May have produced human, social and material disasters in nearly all...

The Sacarrín Effect
2010 Septiembre Nicaragua
There was nothing new about the political environment when the “sacarrín” was suddenly played. The executive branch was consummating its control over...

Living with Ghosts
2010 Agosto Nicaragua
The huge plaza opposite Lake Xolotlán’s boardwalk was filled to overflowing with hundreds of thousands of people, as usual. And as usual, the multitude...

The Games We Played During the Soccer World Cup
2010 Julio Nicaragua
As the World Cup knockout stage approached, Nicaragua’s institutional crisis was still where we’d left it before the sound of vuvuzelas started trumpeting...

Broad Brushstrokes and Fine Touches
2010 Mayo Nicaragua
Reelecting Daniel Ortega in 2011 is the Sandinista National Liberation Front’s absolute priority. But given that the Constitution prohibits him running...

Mirages
2010 Abril Nicaragua
March revealed desperation among the actors dominating the nation’s political stage. Hovering over their heads is the National Assembly’s still pending...

Chaos All Around
2010 Marzo Nicaragua
This year began with a legal urgency that has set time limits. The constitutional terms of 25 officials heading the electoral branch, the Supreme Court...

Stones in Their Shoes
2010 Enero Nicaragua
One of the Ortega government’s various colorful TV propaganda spots tells us that 2010 is a year of “sowing” and 2011 will be one of “reaping.” It’s...

What to Add, What to Subtract, How to Multiply, Who to Divide?
2009 Diciembre Nicaragua
In August 2008 Ortega government sympathizers made such an aggressive attack on opposition members arriving for a demonstration in León that the demonstration...

Riding the Wind with the Sails Full
2009 Noviembre Nicaragua
Two months ago we analyzed the government’s running of the ship of state and speculated that Daniel Ortega and his team could veer off course and even...

What Surprises Will the End of This Third Year Bring?
2009 Octubre Nicaragua
The end of 2009 will mark the conclusion of the third year of President Daniel Ortega’s second elected term in office. It doesn’t take a genius to predict...

The Wind in Its Sails, Adrift or About to Run Aground?
2009 Septiembre Nicaragua
From the outset, Daniel Ortega’s new government charted its course according to economic and political coordinates. Economically, it concentrated on...

Major Signs of Crisis, Minor Signs of Flexibility
2009 Agosto Nicaragua
The 30th anniversary of the in-surrection that ended half a century of Somoza family dictatorship found the FSLN government limited by an escalating...

Thirty Years Seen Through the Time Tunnel
2009 Julio Nicaragua
Managua became a continental political epicenter again on June 29. In three successive summits—the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), the...

El Salvador and Nicaragua: So Near and Yet So Far
2009 Junio Nicaragua
President Daniel Ortega made a last-minute decision not to show up at President Mauricio Funes’ inauguration the morning of June 1, despite his announced...

Vulnerable to the Bottom-feeding Suckermouth
2009 Abril Nicaragua
The first Panama Suckermouth was accidentally caught a year ago in the Nacarime Lagoon, in Rivas. After 10 hours out of water the fish was still moving,...

Before the Night Gets Much Darker…
2009 Marzo Nicaragua
On Saturday, February 28, a dozen civic organizations organized street demonstrations in eight Nicaraguan cities “against the electoral fraud, the dictatorship...

Abuse as Usual Means Many Accounts to Settle
2009 Enero Nicaragua
The crisis triggered by last November’s fraudulent municipal elections monopolized the political scene in Nicaragua for over two months. Then on January...

Three New Year Scenarios
2008 Diciembre Nicaragua
In another week or two we will have reached the New Year and the halfway mark of President Daniel Ortega’s term in office. The structural problems dragging...

Nicaragua Is the Municipal Elections’ Big Loser
2008 Noviembre Nicaragua
Nicaraguans voted for new municipal authorities in the middle of a planetary economic crisis. Although it has hit this fragile country hard, President...

The Rules of the Game
2008 Octubre Nicaragua
We’re heading toward an electoral November. On Tuesday, November 4, US voters will choose between Obama and McCain, with the entire planet watching....

Criticism Isn’t Synonymous with Hatred
2008 Septiembre Nicaragua
It’s not pure speculation to assume that Daniel Ortega views this five-year term of government (2007-2011) as a “transition” to the next one. By that...

Where Are We After 29 Years, And After 290 Hours?
2008 Julio Nicaragua
When the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) magistrates announced on May 23 that they were canceling the legal status of the Sandinista Renovation Movement...

Nicaraguans Squeezed on All Sides
2008 Junio Nicaragua
There are moments when every thing just seems to hit at the same time. Last month was like that. The global energy crisis, one of the roots of the...

The Sea, the Ship And the Uncertain Course
2008 Mayo Nicaragua
The relentless rise in international oil and food prices is a constant item in the agitated sea of international news. Many people around the world...

La Chureca and the North Caribbean: Two Man-Made Crises
2008 Abril Nicaragua
Managua spent the whole of March grappling with a “garbage crisis.” In part it was a battle of poor against poor, the kind nobody wins. But insofar...

Lots of Clashes, Little Light And Still No Way Forward
2008 Marzo Nicaragua
The Ortega-Murillo government has definitely reorganized the set on the country’s political and economic stage, transforming whole areas and redecorating...

Storm Clouds of Ambiguous Days (Or the Ambiguities of Stormy Days)
2008 Enero Nicaragua
The end of 2007 was especially tense, both economically and politically. And because the calendar’s imaginary cutoff date does nothing to dissipate...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
2007 Diciembre Nicaragua
IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMITAlthough playing a seconding role, Nicaragua’s President took part in the incident between the King of Spain and the President...

How Many Conflicts Will the New “Direct Democracy” Trigger?
2007 Diciembre Nicaragua
President Daniel Ortega had begun to talk of setting up “direct democracy” in Nicaragua even before winning the elections and continued to insist on...

With Water, Water Everywhere, Who’s on the President’s Ark?
2007 Noviembre Nicaragua
One year after the FSLN’s squeaky victory in the presidential elections, there is still a generalized feeling of uncertainty in the country. Many of...

Ba’ra sma ki? The Caribbean’s Challenge
2007 Octubre Nicaragua
All witnesses of the now devastated communities in the North Caribbean, including two people who lived through the experience and write about it in these...

The FSLN Government Pieces Together Its New International Policy Puzzle
2007 Septiembre Nicaragua
In the early morning of September 4, Hurricane Felix passed directly over the Miskito Keys off Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast then made landfall at the...

The Cards Are on the Table
2007 Agosto Nicaragua
July is always a month of political happenings, and this year was no exception. In fact it produced even more novelties than in recent years. The...

The Ortega-Murillo Project: Personal, Family, National or International?
2007 Julio Nicaragua
The leitmotifs of the preparations for the 28th anniversary of the revolution are established in a series of gigantic billboards that appeared all over...

The Sound of Silence and The Noise of Tola
2007 Junio Nicaragua
The political and economic project of the government of “unity and reconciliation,” as the Ortega-Murillo government has labeled itself, has been taking...

Where Are We Heading?
2007 Mayo Nicaragua
The new government’s first hundred days sparked a plethora of analyses, most of which considered that it lacked a defined program. Almost certainly...

A Hundred Days in Babel
2007 Abril Nicaragua
In the biblical Babel—the Hebrew name for the city of Babylon located in what was then Mesopo- tamia and is now occupied and bloodied Iraq—there was...

Sixty Days On: Signals, Seals and Superficiality
2007 Marzo Nicaragua
Two months into its term, the new government presided over by Daniel Ortega and his ever-present wife, Rosario Murillo, is still touting the slogan of...

The Hopes, Dreams and Fears Are Already Starting to Unfold
2007 Febrero Nicaragua
Each step in the ceremony marking Daniel Ortega’s return to the presidential office on Jan- uary 10 sent out signals that delighted some and worried...

From “Governing from Below” To Governing Right Up at the Top
2006 Noviembre Nicaragua
After 16 years making good on his promise to “govern from below” following his defeat in the 1990 elections, Daniel Ortega finally re-won the presidency...

The FSLN in the National Assembly: Pact with the PLC or Ally with the ALN?
2006 Noviembre Nicaragua
Although the Sandinista National Liberation Front’s electoral victory can be qualified in different ways, the fact that its candidates and propaganda...

Surprises and Special Effects On the Way to Election Day
2006 Octubre Nicaragua
After a long hiatus in his public declarations about national politics and the electoral process, the US ambassador in Nicaragua, Paul Trivelli, announced...

Are We Ready to Leap Out of Poverty In a Single Bound?
2006 Septiembre Nicaragua
This year’s electoral campaign officially kicked off on August 19. Under the slogan “Nicaragua united will triumph,” the Sandinista National Liberation...

How Things Stacks Up on the Official Campaign Starting Date
2006 Agosto Nicaragua
Saturday, August 19, was the official starting date for this year’s national elections, but it was pure formality. Most of the five parties running...

Herty Lewites: Now a “Spiritual Candidate”
2006 Julio Nicaragua
Just as the presidential candidates were moving into position for the official starting bell of this year’s electoral race, Herty Lewites’ heart stopped...

First Identikit of the Four Bands
2006 Junio Nicaragua
One definition of band is a musical group, with its repertoire, instruments, fans, managers and patrons. Another is a group organized to commit evil...

Is Nicaragua’s Electoral Race Between Trivelli and Chávez?
2006 Mayo Nicaragua
Washington seems to have finally grasped that Arnoldo Alemán still controls the Constitutionalist Liberal Party (PLC), thanks to his skilled handling...

75 Days to Jockey for Position
2006 Abril Nicaragua
One major slot remained to be filled on the presidential ballot for the November 5 general elections. With the selection of José Rizo as the Constitutionalist...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
2006 Marzo Nicaragua
POLITICAL WITCHCRAFTA hand-rolled cigar riddled with pins and dripping with sulfur appeared in the Supreme Court’s plenary hall on February...

Coast Elections: Whose Temperature Was Taken?
2006 Marzo Nicaragua
On March 5, voters on the Caribbean side of Nicaragua had their fifth opportunity to elect the 45 Regional Council members in what is officially called...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
2006 Enero Nicaragua
INTERBANK CASE DISMISSEDOn December 14, with public opinion turned to festive matters, Sandinista judge David Rojas definitively dismissed all...

Eyes on November And the South
2006 Enero Nicaragua
For many reasons Nicaragua was at the center of world attention in the eighties. That’s how we felt, and that’s how we were seen. As of 1990, that...

New Times? Güegüense Times
2005 Diciembre Nicaragua
The Nicaraguan play El Güegüense o Macho-Ratón, written in Spanish and Nahuatl by an anonymous playwright, has been a cultural treasure of our...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
2005 Diciembre Nicaragua
ALEMÁN’S TRIAL IN PANAMA POSTPONEDThe great expectations created in the Nicaraguan media about former President Arnoldo Alemán’s trial in Panama...

The Hands that Rock... Just About Everything
2005 Noviembre Nicaragua
On October 10, as the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the United States was being debated in the National Assembly, Daniel Ortega met privately...

How Will This Interminable Conflict End?
2005 Octubre Nicaragua
One of the first missions of José Miguel Insulza, the new secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), involved a brief trip to Nicaragua...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
2005 Septiembre Nicaragua
ELECTORAL BRANCH REELECTS LEADERSHIPAfter a month without holding its scheduled elections and 25 sessions scheduled then aborted because the...

More of the Same? Or Have We Touched Bottom?
2005 Septiembre Nicaragua
The institutional war that has put President Bolaños between the rock of the bipartite pact and the legal hard place that the PLC-FSLN constructed piece...

Garza Returns to Untie the Gordian Knot
2005 Agosto Nicaragua
Oliver Garza, US ambassador to Nicaragua during the government of Arnoldo Alemán, returned on July 22. His successor, Barbara Moore, has just completed...

Punches and Counterpunches; Proposals and Counterproposals
2005 Julio Nicaragua
The huge gap between the “real country” and the “legal country”—that brilliantly useful distinction invented by Octavio Paz, used by Carlos Fuentes and...

A Divided, Divvied Up and Directionless Country
2005 Junio Nicaragua
Will Enrique Bolaños finish out his term? What side will the army take in the conflict between the branches of government? Is the country moving toward...

The Fuel Crisis and The Sparks that Ignite It
2005 Mayo Nicaragua
Once again international news headlines announced “Violence in Nicaragua,” a replay right down to the images from a few years ago: flaming tires in Managua’s...

Vortexes in All Three Vertexes Of the Triangle
2005 Abril Nicaragua
Some months ago, historian, Conservative politician and former foreign minister Emilio Álvarez Montalván came up with a useful metaphor when he wrote...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
2005 Abril Nicaragua
NICARAGUA BRIEFS NEMAGON VICTIMS WIN A ROUNDDozens of impoverished peasant families, some of the men and women terminally ill from the direct...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
2005 Marzo Nicaragua
BLOODY EVICTION: WHO’S AT FAULT?A group of squatters took over about ten hectares of land on the outskirts of Chinandega on February 23, but...

Lessons from the Teachers …and the Former Mayor
2005 Marzo Nicaragua
The new school semester opened late this year. Nicaragua’s pathetically underpaid public school teachers, tired of asking for justifiable raises without...

A Free-Wheeling Tragicomedy
2005 Febrero Nicaragua
The events of November, December and well into January of this year were called many things. Some branded them an “institutional catastrophe,” others...

Year-end Fireworks in the Legal Country and the Real One
2005 Enero Nicaragua
While Nicaraguans always celebrate the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, Christmas and the New Year with deafening firecrackers, the joint pyrotechnics...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
2005 Enero Nicaragua
POLITICAL DIPS IN TISCAPAOn December 1, as he had earlier promised, outgoing mayor of Managua Herty Lewites went for a dip in Laguna Tiscapa,...

The Electoral Test: A Ray of Hope on a Dark Horizon
2004 Noviembre Nicaragua
Nicaragua’s November 7 municipal elections gave the FSLN and its ally the National Convergence a major victory and the PLC a serious defeat, while relegating...

They Overturned the Table With the Dice Still in the Air
2004 Octubre Nicaragua
President Bolaños’ conflicts with the judicial and legislative branches—both of which are split almost evenly between his adversaries, the FSLN and...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
2004 Octubre Nicaragua
CAFTA DECREE DRAWS SMALL AUDIENCEOn October 5, ten months after the fact, President Bolaños presented to the National Assembly the presidential...

Alone and Weak, But Oh So Sure of His Shaky Ground
2004 Septiembre Nicaragua
This last month the country found itself again “overlook-ing the abyss,” facing a “monstrous political crisis” and “institutional chaos.” Is it just...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
2004 Septiembre Nicaragua
EASY FOR BOLAÑOS TO SAY September 6 completed the 20-day deadline set by Islamic groups supposedly linked to the Al Qaeda network for the government...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
2004 Agosto Nicaragua
OF DRUGS AND MISSILESDespite constant news reports of international drug trafficking in Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast, neither the military, police...

The Way Out of the Labyrinth Is Long, but Possible
2004 Agosto Nicaragua
With half his term now behind him, President Bolaños is “already history” in the opinion of some analysts. Although he still appears to see his glass...

The Corruption of Words
2004 Julio Nicaragua
The mood in the run-up to the celebrations of the 111th anniversary of the Liberal revolution (July 11) and the 25th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution...

A Loaded Social Agenda and A Hemmed-in Government
2004 Junio Nicaragua
Social conflicts intensified last month, leaving most of Nicaragua’s population increasingly frustrated. There aren’t enough resources, institutional...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
2004 Junio Nicaragua
THE UNIVERSITY STRUGGLE FOR 6%As has happened every year for over a decade, university students took to the streets for more than a week starting...

How Solid is the Tripod Supporting Bolaños’ Economic Strategy?
2004 Mayo Nicaragua
The latest series of political tensions, which at their peak sparked dramatic speculation about the “abyss” to which the two political caudillos...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
2004 Mayo Nicaragua
UNILATERAL MISSILE DEMOLITIONOn April 24, the two Liberal benches in the National Assembly combined their 48 votes to approve a resolution supporting...

More Pacts or a Real National Dialogue?
2004 Abril Nicaragua
A series of crises—or, to be more exact, successive symptoms of the same crisis, which has no short-term solution—still dominate the national stage....

Blood, Amnesty and a Paradox
2004 Marzo Nicaragua
When last December’s 12-day crisis “ended” with the sentencing of ex-President Arnoldo Alemán to 20 years imprisonment on money laundering charges,...

The Face of Nicaragua in 2004: Obvious Forecasts
2004 Enero Nicaragua
Self-satisfied and complacent rhetoric was the daily bread from the government in December and January, once it had weathered the new Ortega-Alemán deals...

The Twelve Days that Shook Nicaragua
2003 Diciembre Nicaragua
For 12 long and tense days, from November 26 to December 7, Nicaragua’s seemingly interminable political crisis spiraled to spectacular heights. Complex...

The “Powell Effect” on the Three Political Forces
2003 Noviembre Nicaragua
Nicaragua had to take two important “exams” in recent weeks, administered first by the donor community in late October and then by the US government...

Nicaragua’s “New Era” Does an About-Face
2003 Octubre Nicaragua
Throughout 2002, the first year of his five-year term as President, Enrique Bolaños dedicated most of his efforts to “cleaning house” in the executive...

Central American-US Free Trade Agreement: Opportunity or Nightmare for Nicaragua?
2003 Septiembre Nicaragua
Kenneth Hoadley, a professional with no leftist leanings, is the rector of the El Zamorano Pan-American Agricultural School, a prestigious agronomy and...

The Compass Needle Points North
2003 Septiembre Nicaragua
The word guaca is a hidden treasure, a stash. But it also means the burial ground of our pre-Colombian ancestors. Over a year ago, the enormous...

Three Celebrations and a Host of Scenarios
2003 Agosto Nicaragua
July’s three political anniversary celebrations—by the pro-Alemán Liberals on July 11, the pro-Bolaños Liberals on July 13 and the FSLN on July 19—offered...

How Do We Dig Ourselves Out of the Hole?
2003 Julio Nicaragua
In early July, President Bolaños called on the other branches of state not to make war with him but to help him dig Nicaragua out of the “hole” it is...

The Alemán-Ortega Pact Has Bolaños on a Short Leash
2003 Junio Nicaragua
The spurious deals that are so much a part of Nicaragua’s political life, absorbing the energies and sacrificing the autonomy of so many decision-makers,...

Our Place in the World
2003 Mayo Nicaragua
As the planet’s military superpower, the United States has used the war against Iraq to show humanity the direction it wants to impose on all of the...

Thrown into a Worldwide Consciousness-Building Workshop
2003 Abril Nicaragua
By so arrogantly closing the option of peace and international legality and instead waging a “preemptive” war against Iraq, which is really a war against...

The Names of the Rose
2003 Marzo Nicaragua
For an entire month, a different theme vied successfully for space with all the political and economic issues that usually dominate Nicaragua’s headlines....

From One Crossroads to Another
2003 Enero Nicaragua
Though Nicaragua’s grave structural problems have not shifted one iota, and its leadership class has offered no new faces or speeches, much less ideas,...

A Country Lost in Its Labyrinth One Year into the “New Era”
2002 Diciembre Nicaragua
The first year of what victorious presidential candidate Enrique Bolaños had promised would be a “New Era” is drawing to an end. With the firecrackers...

Perverse Political Ambitions Behind Institutional Masks
2002 Noviembre Nicaragua
If there is a positive side to the crisis Nicaragua has been slogging through since the change of government and launching of the anti-corruption struggle,...

Part 1: The Political Scene: One Step Forward, How Many Back?
2002 Octubre Nicaragua
The zigzags in the fight against corruption are proving that corruption and impunity are the most solid underpinnings of national political culture,...

Part 2: The Economic Scene: The Unpayable Internal Debt Is the Budget’s "Black Hole"
2002 Octubre Nicaragua
The National Assembly debate on the bill for the 2003 budget sent by the executive is scheduled to get underway in mid-October. This budget reflects...

A Prolonged Duel Between Legitimacy and Legality
2002 Septiembre Nicaragua
By accepting the challenge of an historically unprecedented political conflict—the war against corruption—Nicaragua’s new President let himself in for...

La Guaca: Treasure, Burial and Maturing
2002 Agosto Nicaragua
On August 7, after the media had spent four days whipping up expectations over the discovery of what President Enrique Bolaños had enticingly dubbed...

A Government in the Opposition and A Pair of Caudillos Who Won’t Step Down
2002 Julio Nicaragua
The test of strength between Bolaños and Alemán—both have called it war—is occupying the entire political stage. Bolaños has decided to make the fight...

Will the Fight against Corruption Bring a Lasting Climatic Change?
2002 Junio Nicaragua
Artists sometimes find the best description of reality in metaphors. Writer Sergio Ramírez recently described what Nicaragua has been experiencing since...

The Fight Against Corruption Is a Learning Experience
2002 Mayo Nicaragua
March 21: Judge Gertrudis Arias charges former President Arnoldo Alemán with fraud against the state related to the Channel 6 case. April 23: The National...

A Hundred Days into the New Government, There are a Hundred Questions
2002 Abril Nicaragua
On April 10, the government of Enrique Bolaños completed its 100th day, a time period that has become politically fashionable to evaluate. Albeit a relatively...

Dilemmas in the Fight against the Cancer of Corruption
2002 Marzo Nicaragua
The initial expectations of economic improvement and political peace sparked by last November’s electoral results are being hit daily by intense bursts...

General Elections 2001: The Predicted, The Unpredicted, The Uncertain
2001 Noviembre Nicaragua
Nicaragua’s general elections were held on Sunday, November 4. For months, polls had shown Enrique Bolaños and Daniel Ortega neck-and-neck in a race...

The Armageddon Effect: The Final Test
2001 Octubre Nicaragua
As Nicaragua’s electoral campaign was plodding through its interminable final weeks with only the usual ephemeral surprises provided by the national...

Between Two Evils and Many Dreams
2001 Septiembre Nicaragua
The official kick-off date for this year’s electoral campaign was August 18. Despite the fact that two of the three political parties running this time...

A Predictable Disaster Competes with A Predicted Electoral Process
2001 Agosto Nicaragua
The moving news of rampant hunger in the country’s rural areas began to compete with the discouraging news from the electoral process. A critical food...

The Electoral Film Rolls On
2001 Julio Nicaragua
With the elections only four months away, polls still show Daniel Ortega in the lead, though the latest one, done by CID-Gallup at the end of June, indicates...

The Economy in the Electoral Film: Strong Scenes, Uncertain Script
2001 Junio Nicaragua
Five new national polls by different firms and institutions, done over a range of dates from the end of April to the end of May, all confirmed Daniel...

An Election Script with Heavy-handed Special Effects
2001 Mayo Nicaragua
These days, when a movie has a lousy script, an unsubstantial plot and second-rate actors, glitzy special effects are often used—or abused, depending...

The Election Flick: Sets and Scenes
2001 Abril Nicaragua
With the beating sun soon to give way to the pelting rains of Nicaragua’s tropical "winter," several different scenarios are still being scripted for...

Casting Nicaragua’s Electoral Flick
2001 Marzo Nicaragua
After a first draft of the electoral film’s script was hammered out between December and January, these past two months have been dedicated to signing...

Writing the Script for Nicaragua’s Election Drama
2001 Enero Nicaragua
Political protagonists from a past we have yet to put behind us are again dominating Nicaragua’s silver screen as if history wanted to repeat itself....

The Clouds in the Electoral Skies
2000 Octubre Nicaragua
With less than a month to go before the elections, ominous clouds have gathered in Nicaragua’s skies. Snapshots of this densely overcast horizon give...

The Interbank Bankruptcy Opens a Pandora’s Box
2000 Septiembre Nicaragua
A good many people believe that, at this time in history, when the avalanche of globalization is sweeping away the very idea of nations, Nicaragua has...

The Air is Thick With Electoral Fraud
2000 Agosto Nicaragua
In Managua and the other municipalities on the Pacific side of the country, voters who turn out on Sunday, November 5, will be given two ballots, one...

The Road to Elections Is Paved With the Pains of the Pact
2000 Julio Nicaragua
Day emerges out of the shadows of the night. In these long nights before November’s municipal elections, the rigid new Electoral Law is demonstrating...

A Society Scandalized
2000 Junio Nicaragua
The word "scandal" comes from the Greek word for stumbling block. To scandalize is literally to trip up, obstruct, hold back, although in more common...

Destination: Washington Baggage: Overweight
2000 Mayo Nicaragua
Arnoldo Alemán’s government was looking to buy political and economic time when it decided both to postpone its scheduled annual meeting with the international...

Do They Want the Elections or Don’t They?
2000 Abril Nicaragua
The election countdown has begun, and the political runners are warming up for the race. But are they in shape, and do they have their strategies clear?...

The Pact’s First Offspring
2000 Marzo Nicaragua
The consummation of the pact between Arnoldo Alemán and Daniel Ortega has created a new dynamic and a new correlation of forces in the country, although...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
2000 Marzo Nicaragua
NINTH SAO PAULO FORUM MEETS IN MANAGUA The Sao Paulo Forum held its IX Meeting in Managua on February 19-21, with delegates, mainly Latin Americans,...

After the Pact: The Die Is Cast
2000 Enero Nicaragua
For Nicaragua, 1999 not only marked the end of the twentieth century and the second millennium. It also marked the end of the "transition" initiated...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1999 Diciembre Nicaragua
JARQUÍN WARNS OF A RETURN TO THE PAST From his jail cell, Comptroller General Agustín Jarquín sent a letter to the members of the Inter-American...

Crossroads at the Century’s End
1999 Diciembre Nicaragua
The recent events that closed the century and the millennium for Nicaragua have the quality of historic crossroads. The President of the Republic successfully...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1999 Noviembre Nicaragua
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS AT RISK Next year's municipal elections, scheduled for November 5, are at risk of being postponed due to a lack of funds....

What’s Behind the IMF Pressure?
1999 Noviembre Nicaragua
When Hurricane Mitch's winds and rain lashed through Central America last year, they whipped away the veil of invisibility that had obscured the poverty...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1999 Octubre Nicaragua
A PARDON IN ONE HAND, A WARNING IN THE OTHER During the Annual IMF-World Bank Assembly on September 29, President Bill Clinton pledged to get...

So Poor, So Indebted, So Vulnerable
1999 Octubre Nicaragua
With a year now passed since hurricane Mitch tore through Central America leaving its wake of devastation, ample parts of Nicaragua and the rest of the...

Is the Game All Sewn Up? Questions and Contradictions
1999 Septiembre Nicaragua
The game board on which Daniel Ortega and Arnoldo Alemán traded pawns for the past year has been folded up and the players are now counting their pieces....

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1999 Septiembre Nicaragua
LEGISLATOR MURDERED BY A MINOR Rancher José Cuadra, the Conservative Party of Nicaragua's representative in the National Assembly, was shot...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1999 Agosto Nicaragua
ALEMÁN FIDDLES WHILE VOLCANOS BURN A string of some 200 tremors, the strongest reaching 4.7 degrees on the Richter Scale, was recorded in northwest...

First Impacts of a Devil’s Pact
1999 Agosto Nicaragua
The time has come to sign, seal, sell and deliver the pact forged over the past year by the Constitutionalist Liberal Party (PLC) and the FSLN. And delivering...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1999 Julio Nicaragua
COSTA RICAN-NICARAGUAN ENMITY MOUNTS Early on the morning of June 30, Costa Rican armed forces violently evicted 150 Nicaraguan families (1,500...

The Pact’s Roots Go Deep And its Fruits are Rotten
1999 Julio Nicaragua
July 19: twenty years have passed since the Somoza dictatorship was over-thrown and a revolution triumphed that would change Nicaraguan and Central American...

After Stockholm and Before the Pact
1999 Junio Nicaragua
The meeting in Stockholm between delegations of the Central American countries' governments and civil societies and representatives of the donor countries...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1999 Junio Nicaragua
MOURNING IN POSOLTEGA On May 20, a group of Posoltega survivors consigned to a common grave more than 35 bags of unidentifiable skeletal parts...

Is the Cycle of Violence Interminable?
1999 Mayo Nicaragua
While around the world people of good will were following the perplexing Kosovo tragedy and the contribution by the United States and NATO to the violence...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1999 Mayo Nicaragua
envío POLL RILES PRESIDENT The reaction of Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Alemán to the IDESO-envío survey on corruption that appeared...

The Long March against Corruption
1999 Abril Nicaragua
In the donor countries' consultative group meeting to be held in late may in Stockholm, Sweden, the international community will firm up its financial...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1999 Abril Nicaragua
1999 BUDGET APPROVED WITH GLITCHES The approval of the 1999 General Budget of the Republic was for months a centerpiece of the institutional...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1999 Marzo Nicaragua
CLINTON'S VISIT President Clinton's March 8 visit to Nicaragua lasted seven hours. The central act took place at the base of the Casita volcano...

In the Vortex of Hurricane "Corruption"
1999 Marzo Nicaragua
While Managua is beginning to forget the gaping wounds that hurricane Mitch's rushing waters opened in other parts of the country, the nation as a whole...

100 Days after Mitch: Any Sign of a Change of Attitude?
1999 Enero Nicaragua
It has become a tradition among political journalists to evaluate recently elected governments a hundred days into their administration. Can this same...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1999 Enero Nicaragua
US ARMY TO THE RESCUE The first 380 members of a total US Army contingent of 1,700 arrived in Nicaragua on December 9. They make up a Joint...

A Time for Opportunities and Opportunists
1998 Diciembre Nicaragua
The government officially concluded the national emergency committee's activities on the night of November 24, three weeks after it began to function...

Sketches of an Unexpected Tragedy
1998 Noviembre Nicaragua
With so little time before going to press, and with so much information still unreported or incomplete, we could not hope to adequately analyze this...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1998 Noviembre Nicaragua
1999 BUDGET GLITCHES With no way of predicting the emergency situation that Hurricane Mitch would trigger over the next several weeks, the President's...

A Country Still in the Making
1998 Octubre Nicaragua
The phrase "on the threshold of the new century and a new millennium" is showing up with increasing frequency in the speeches of public figures around...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1998 Octubre Nicaragua
WHITHER THE ZOILÁMERICA CASE? On September 19, the National Assembly's executive board, dominated by the Liberals, announced that it would form...

Stormy Weather... Can't Get Our Poor Selves Together
1998 Septiembre Nicaragua
In the past few weeks Nicaragua’s political reality has been undergoing a realignment based on political calculations, the enticing deals and economic...

Re-election: Centerpiece of the Pact
1998 Agosto Nicaragua
Nationalism unites, mobilizes and motivates peoples, even those who have not yet forged true nations. This happened in Nicaragua in recent weeks to such...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1998 Julio Nicaragua
LIBERAL CONVENTION: NO SURPRISES The incumbent Constitutionalist Liberal Party celebrated its annual convention on July 11. Many of the party's...

Time for a Pact Or Time for Reflection?
1998 Julio Nicaragua
The deterioration of both the projected image and the real project of Arnoldo Alemán's government is obvious to all. And it is very worrying. In turn,...

Days of Smoke and Tears
1998 Junio Nicaragua
MAY 1998 WILL NOT FADE UNREMEMBERED FROM RECENT NATIONAL HISTORY. THE month was filled with days of thick smoke, an asphyxiating atmosphere caused by...

We are Hitting Bottom: Where is the Way Up and Out?
1998 Mayo Nicaragua
Nicaragua is being buried beneath an avalanche of crises of all kinds. One convulsion comes on top of another and each new crisis forces our attention...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1998 Abril Nicaragua
BANK SECRECY OVERTURNED The managers of various private banks have expressed concern about reforms passed by Nicaragua's National Assembly...

Who is Who: A Key to Understanding
1998 Abril Nicaragua
THE GOVERNMENT OF ARNOLDO ALEMÁN HAS NOW FULLY DEFINED THE MACROECONOMIC framework for its administration. After a year of resistance first and then...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1998 Marzo Nicaragua
FSLN RE-ENTERS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY After having boycotted the National Assembly for several weeks due to what it called the illegal election of...

A Test in Ethics For a Society in Crisis
1998 Marzo Nicaragua
AFTER A VERY LONG DRY SPELL, NICARAGUA, A COUNTRY IN A MULTI-FACETED CRISIS, made the world news several times in February. First was the extended strike...

New Twist with the IMF: The Winners and the Losers
1998 Febrero Nicaragua
AS 1997 DREW TO A CLOSE, THE ALEMÁN GOVERNMENT FINALLY, through paid publication in the daily newspapers, made known the contents of the Letter of Intent...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1998 Enero Nicaragua
NICA EMIGRANTS OFF THE HOOK A bill sponsored by Cuban-American Republicans Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Lincoln Díaz Balart and voted into law under...

Uncertainty at Year's End
1998 Enero Nicaragua
By the Nitlapán-envío team.As 1997 ends, so virtually ends Arnoldo Alemán's first year of government. Almost all of the national problems that...

The United Nations Hits the Nail on the Head
1997 Diciembre Nicaragua
With only a couple of months to go before the end of the liberal government's first year in office, Nicaragua's population is still waiting for things...

An Accord Besieged by Discord
1997 Noviembre Nicaragua
National politics took a significant turn in early September, when the teams of government and FSLN jurists who had been meeting for months to forge...

The Dangers of a Democracy On Paper Only
1997 Octubre Nicaragua
The army of Nicaragua, born of the Sandinista guerrilla movement that routed Somoza's National Guard in 1979, then graduated with honors in the 80s when...

President Arnoldo Alemán Between the Fund and the Front
1997 Septiembre Nicaragua
The Nicaraguan saying, "between two steel prods, no bull is brave," pretty well sums up the Liberal government's first seven months in office. The two...

National Dialogue or Liberal Monologue?
1997 Agosto Nicaragua
In June, the FSLN spoke of a latent possibility of "bringing down" the government, while other sectors sought only to curb the government's authoritarian...

Is There a Bridge Over These Troubled Waters?
1997 Julio Nicaragua
The liberal government continued to open more fronts of confrontation and add new names to its growing list of adversaries in May, disregarding the serious...

The Crisis of the Barricades
1997 Junio Nicaragua
Evaluating new governments once they have completed the first 100 days of their administration is becoming a tradition. Even though it's understood that...

Alemán in a Race Against Time
1997 Mayo Nicaragua
In its first three months, the government of president Arnoldo Alemán has simultaneously -- and unnecessarily -- opened several fronts of confrontation:...

All Threads Lead to The Property Tangle
1997 Abril Nicaragua
Two months into president Arnoldo Alemán's term in office, he is still mainly posturing for a population that is showing signs of being tired, more mature,...

President Alemán: First Moves, First Signals
1997 Febrero Nicaragua
Many people expected the national logic in Nicaragua following the Liberal victory to be crucial elections = crucial change. It's still soon to note...

A New Period For the Nation
1996 Diciembre Nicaragua
It's not easy to analyze all that has happened in nicaragua as a result of the both anticipated and feared elections of October 20, 1996. They have...

How Nicaraguans Voted
1996 Diciembre Nicaragua
Nicaragua's elections finally came to an end on November 22 with a reading of the names of all new elected au thorities. This put a full stop to one...

The Roots of The Electoral Crisis
1996 Diciembre Nicaragua
In the last poll done by CID GALLUP before the elections, 61% of the Nicaraguans polled expressed confidence in the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) and...

Nicaragua's Elections: The Die Is Cast
1996 Noviembre Nicaragua
In Nicaraguan culture, everything is left to the last minute. Then, of course, it's improvised, with a heavy dose of ingenuity, and those making the...

FSLN-Liberal Alliance In a Technical Tie
1996 Octubre Nicaragua
With two months to go before Nicaragua's election, a cid gallup poll done in late August showed that 34% of those polled would vote for Liberal Alliance...

The Campaign Starting Gun Has Been Fired
1996 Septiembre Nicaragua
Nicaragua's official electoral campaign--at 75 days, one of latin ameri ca's longest--was officially kicked off on August 2. For the most important...

Promises Coming and Going
1996 Agosto Nicaragua
In mid june, seven months before turning over the presidential sash to her succesor, President Violeta Chamorro traveled to Washington to make her farewell...

All Electoral Horses Now at the Starting Gate
1996 Julio Nicaragua
The twice postponed deadline for registering parties, alliances and candi dates for the October electoral race has finally come and gone. At the close...

Honesty Doesn't Come Cheap
1996 Junio Nicaragua
The government has no time to govern and the state is falling to pieces, while society is divided between those who believe in everything and those who...

Nicaragua's Two Options: Change or Stay the Same
1996 Mayo Nicaragua
Nicaragua's election panorama is getting more complex and incoherent by the day. With 35 registered parties and 5 more in the process of registering,...

The Election Labyrinth
1996 Abril Nicaragua
The path to the October 20 elections is getting more labyrinthian the fure ther both voters and candidates travel down it. "There is no government,"...

Nicaragua Needs a Miracle
1996 Febrero Nicaragua
Nicaragua received pope John Jaul II on February 7 in a mood of peak political and social tension, as well as of peak hope. Many summarized their expectations...

When Democracy Becomes A Synonym for Anarchy
1996 Enero Nicaragua
With the Christmas season and the even more widely celebrated Feast of the Immaculate Conception upon us, government activity is winding down. A new...

Privatizing TELCOR: Not the Only or Best Solution
1995 Diciembre Nicaragua
Comments on the proposal by the TELCOR National Workers Federation, "Enrique Schmidt Cuadra," titled, "TELCOR: Supporting Stability and Development,"...

Poverty: An Incurable Epidemic?
1995 Diciembre Nicaragua
In early October, dozens of people were brought to the small health center in Achuapa, in the northeast corner of León, suffering symptoms of an unidentified...

Is ESAF's Career at an End?
1995 Noviembre Nicaragua
The International Monetary Fund mission that came to Nicaragua at the end of August, spending over two weeks here, was not on a routine visit. The results...

Premature Election Campaigning Overshadows All
1995 Octubre Nicaragua
The joy of the August patron saint festivals mixed with the stupor due to the spectacular appearance of drug trafficking in the country, growing concern...

How Hummingbirds Are Raised
1995 Octubre Nicaragua
They say there are no savings in Nicaragua, and that this is why we are a poor country. Since there are no savings, we can't invest and thus can't grow...

The Electoral Process: For Elites Only?
1995 Septiembre Nicaragua
The political agreements that put an end to the crisis generated by the constitutional reforms also paved the way for defining electoral alliances. ...

Not Yet to the Root of the Crisis
1995 Agosto Nicaragua
The institutional crisis has finally been resolved through an agreement between the executive staff and the National Assembly board. Even if the results...

The Crisis Is Bordering On the Intolerable
1995 Junio Nicaragua
The institutional crisis that peaked with the National Assembly's defiant promulgation of the constitutional reforms has reached new limits: the state...

The Chamorro Administration A Race to the Starting Line
1995 Mayo Nicaragua
On April 25, Violeta Chamorro began her sixth year as President of Nicaragua. As the countdown to the next elections begins, her presidential minister,...

The Foxes Are Infighting: But the Hens Aren't Laughing
1995 Abril Nicaragua
After the attempts to create a federated Central America failed early last century, 30 years would pass before Conservatives began to consolidate the...

The Constitutional Reforms: Another Opportunity
1995 Febrero Nicaragua
The world is going through a change of epochs that touches even the traditional industrialized countries, particularly those forged in heated struggles...

Will Economics and Politics Keep Playing at the Same Table?
1995 Enero Nicaragua
As 1994 rang in, Nicaragua's economy was bankrupt and its political forces were in the process of regrouping. The clearest sign of bankruptcy was seen...

Nicaragua: Through a Glass Darkly
1994 Diciembre Nicaragua
Just as the last issue of envío was about to go to press, Nicaragua's Supreme Court of Justice made known its finding that it would be unconstitutional...

Decollectivization: Agrarian Reform
1994 Diciembre Nicaragua
The Nicaraguan peasantry's permanent demand for property has meant that in the last 13 years more than 200,000 peasant families have obtained over 4...

Time for Transparency
1994 Noviembre Nicaragua
We in Nicaragua are used to living with constant confrontation. The political parties, and their various factions and fractions, are at permanent verbal...

Political Ambition; Economic Negligence
1994 Octubre Nicaragua
While Nicaraguans with the money to do so prepare their children to live and compete abroad, those who cannot even dream of it, much less attempt it,...

Elites in Search of a National Project?
1994 Septiembre Nicaragua
These times we're living in are very strange. With more opportunities opening up for Nicaragua than in previous years, the country's leaders, politicians,...

The Future Beckons from the Whirlwind's Eye
1994 Agosto Nicaragua
June confirmed once again the preference of many Nicaraguan politicians and business leaders for froth over substance. They spent the month blowing...

Calm Before the Storm?
1994 Julio Nicaragua
The two most weighty items on Nicaragua's economic and political agendas over the past several months have been the government's signature on the Letter...

The Economic Curtains UP: What's the Political Play?
1994 Junio Nicaragua
"Nicaragua's difficulties result from the government's poor economic policy," argue some media commentators. "The political instability is what keeps...

Negotiating the Crisis: A Modest Proposal
1994 Mayo Nicaragua
Michel Camdessus, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, came to Nicaragua on March 12 to deliver the latest version of the IMF's highly...

Would the IMF Accept a More Productive Adjustment?
1993 Noviembre Nicaragua
It is very easy, and always fashionable, to criticize the policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The hard part is to respond to people's...

Central America's Economic and Political Backdrop
1993 Agosto Nicaragua
Editor's note: The following is something of a departure from the usual article that fills this space. In anticipation of the election campaigns...

How Long Should the FSLN Shoulder the Government’s Burden?
1992 Mayo Nicaragua
For several weeks in March, all the media, as well as a vast number of private conversations, centered on the discovery of a young girl's body, raped...

Neoliberalism in Central America: More Than an Economic Plan
1992 Abril Centroamérica
World Bank-imposed structural adjustment programs have now become so prevalent in Latin America that the Economic Commission on Latin America (ECLA)...

A New Chapter Begins
1992 Abril El Salvador
With the recent peace accords and the death of the far right's top leader, Roberto D' Aubuisson, one chapter of Salvadoran history ended and another...

In the National Interest: Trends in US Foreign Aid Programs
1992 Abril Estados Unidos
It is hardly surprising that the US foreign aid program has always operated in the national interests of the United States. The definition of those...

The End of Passivity
1992 Abril Costa Rica
"Calderón promised to eliminate the poor, and he's doing it; he's starving us all to death." This popular joke, repeated almost daily on the streets...

Economic Stabilization--Stop Inflation, and Then What?
1991 Agosto Nicaragua
Presidential Minister Antonio Lacayo announced the government's sweeping economic plan on March 3 as "monetary stabilization at any cost today, economic...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1989 Abril Nicaragua
Nicaragua Briefs YOUR FILL OF FACTSWith the new economic measures in effect, many things in Nicaragua are in increasingly short supply—including...

Bluefileños Gettin’ It Together
1989 Enero Nicaragua
It is commonly said that every cloud has a silver lining. So, apparently, do hurricanes. In Bluefields, the bright side is a new and previously unknown...

Toll Rises from Hurricane Joan: Emergency as Daily Life
1989 Enero Nicaragua
On November 15, President Daniel Ortega officially lifted the state of emergency in effect since October 20, two days before Hurricane Joan battered...

Bush and Latin America: The View from Nicaragua
1989 Enero Nicaragua
To roll back the Cuban revolution after Fidel's death, to wage a low-intensity war against Nicaragua to the bitter end, to consider backing a coup d’état...

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1987 Septiembre Nicaragua
BRIAN WILLSON: SYMBOL OF STRENGTH FOR NICARAGUAN PEOPLENicaraguans reacted with shock and anguish upon hearing that US Vietnam War veteran...

Esquipulas II—Is Peace at Hand?
1987 Septiembre Nicaragua
The Central American Presidents were greeted with fanfare and a drum roll as they entered Guatemala's National Palace on August 7. The palace symbolizes...

Central American Peace Accord
1987 Agosto Centroamérica
As read by His Excellency the President of the Republic of Costa Rica, Dr. Oscar Arias Sánchez. The Presidents of the Republics of Guatemala, El Salvador,...

Reagan vs. Nicaragua Beginning the Final Lap
1987 Agosto Nicaragua
This month the Nicaraguan revolution celebrated its eighth birthday in the city of Matagalpa, capital of one of the departments most affected by the...

Brother Tomas, Martyr of the Church of the Poor
1987 Agosto Nicaragua
Brother Tomás Zavaleta, a 40-year-old Franciscan friar from El Salvador, is the first member of the Catholic clergy to become a victim of the counterrevolutionary...

The Arias Plan and the Tortuous Trip to the Summit
1987 Julio Nicaragua
In our May issue we analyzed the Arias plan and indicated some of its limitations as far as Costa Rica and Guatemala are concerned. In February President...

The First 3,000 Days: Revolution in Review
1987 Julio Nicaragua
The Sandinista revolution’s first 3,000 days have been marked by a series of confrontations by the United States—the strongest imperial power of our...

Rural Cooperatives: Breaking New Ground?
1987 Junio Nicaragua
Today something far greater than economic demands and pluralism is at play in the Nicaraguan countryside. The meaningful participation of peasants in...

The Contras: New Bottles, Old Wine
1987 Junio Nicaragua
On May 8, the United Nicaraguan Opposition (UNO), the contras' political/military umbrella organization, met in Miami and gave itself a new identity,...

A Turn of the Kaleidoscope: Pieces in Motion
1987 Marzo Centroamérica
The Central American kaleidoscope was given a dizzying turn, particularly in the second half of the year, by a series of events that augured political...

In Pursuit of Peace: New Victories, New Challenges
1987 Marzo Nicaragua
Last year saw intense confrontation between the Reagan administration and the Sandinista government, in which Nicaragua scored some important successes....

Nicaragua at a Glance
1987 Marzo Nicaragua
In a situation into which new variables are entering at a rapid rate, the most important events for Nicaragua in February were: * On February 9th...

Introductory Analysis: Central America's People Put to the Test
1987 Marzo Centroamérica
In our special January-February 1986 issue of envío we analyzed the 1979-1985 period in Central America. Four fundamental conclusions were drawn...

Chinks in the US Plan
1987 Marzo Honduras
Against the backdrop of low intensity conflict, US policy towards Honduras since the early 1980s has been dominated by the following lines: - The...

Economic Crisis: A Ticking Time Bomb
1987 Marzo Guatemala
The key element in Guatemala in 1986 was the consolidation of Vinicio Cerezo’s new civilian government brought about by a shifting of the social forces,...

Shifting Weight at the Two Poles
1987 Marzo El Salvador
Three factors have been crucial in determining the political-military balance of the Salvadoran conflict in 1986: the deepening of the economic crisis,...

Recipe for Peace: Firmness and Flexibility
1987 Enero Nicaragua
The National Constituent Assembly, elected November 4, 1984, finished its long work of writing the Political Constitution of Nicaragua on November 19,...

The New Constitution: Revolutionary Realism
1987 Enero Nicaragua
"Contragate"—or "Iranscam," as the Reagan administration scandal is increasingly being called in the United States—has suggested, among other possible...

How to Read the Reagan Administration: The Miskito Case
1986 Noviembre Nicaragua
As protests against the Nicaraguan government's suspension of La Prensa continue to echo in Washington's autumn air, new evidences of for whom...

Jails and Justice in Nicaragua
1986 Octubre Nicaragua
Prison officials and human rights advocates from all over Latin and North America and Western Europe gathered in Managua in September for a major conference...

Upping the US War Ups the Contradictions
1986 Octubre Nicaragua
Nicaragua continues in its uneasy calm, as it braces for a worsening of the war due to the injection of the $100 million approved by Congress for the...

In the Eye of the Hurricane
1986 Septiembre Nicaragua
Tension increased in Nicaragua this month in the wake of the US Senate's ratification of war through its approval of the $100 million for the counterrevolutionaries....